Word: benjamin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Science Department, John R. Canavan '34, James H. Dixon '35, J. Edward Downes '35, Thomas H. Edmands '36, William B. Emmons '37, Robert Lowe '34, John J. Maloney '36, Cornelius Van S. Roosevelt '37, John B. Rowland '36; members from the Naval Science Department, F. Stanton Deland, Jr. '36, Benjamin S. Foss, Jr. '35, Andrew E. Ritchie, Jr. '34, and Richard Stackpole...
...Carl Laemmle Sr. brought Mr. Weir a job writing scripts for Pearl White. Ruth Roland, et al. With Catherine McNelis he founded an advertising agency in 1928, later published and distributed through 5 & 10? stores the five Tower Magazines (Love, Mystery, Home, New Movie, Tiny Tower). ¶¶Died. Benjamin Wood. 61, fourteenth of 15 children of onetime Mayor of New York Fernando Wood, chairman of the board of the Wood Flong Corp., manufacturers of stereotyping mats; of an abscess caused by a peanut lodged in his left lung; in Manhattan. ¶Died. Two Guns White Calf...
...responsible for the standstill order was Major-General Benjamin D. Foulois, Chief of Air Corps. President Roosevelt had commanded an end to Army airmail deaths and the only way to execute that command was to keep flyers out of the air until conditions could be improved. Last week General Foulois started out from Washington to inspect his men, bases and equipment. "I am told," he said, "that our equipment is no good. Others tell me it is the finest in the world." The General flew first to Long Island's Mitchel Field. There he quoted Air Corps mortality statistics...
Died. Dr. Benjamin Franklin Van Meter Jr., 61, of Lexington, Ky., Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, inventor of many a surgical trick, after long illness; in Rancho Santa Fe, Calif...
Next day President Roosevelt called to the White House General Douglas Mac-Arthur and Major-General Benjamin D. Foulois. Last month before he canceled all domestic airmail contracts the President had been told that the Army could handle the job. General MacArthur had known nothing about the Army airmail plan until newsmen told him. But General Foulois, eager for his Air Corps to make history, had told the Post Office Department he could do the job. and they had told the President. What was the matter? Had he been misled into a policy that was damaging the Administration with...