Word: benjamin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President Roosevelt last week sent telegrams to the widows of Presidents Benjamin Harrison, Grover Cleveland, Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, William Howard Taft and Calvin Coolidge and to onetime President Herbert Hoover. The messages all carried the same news: the good friend and trusted aide of each & every one of them, Irwin Hood ("Ike") Hoover, longtime chief usher at the White House, was dead in Washington at the age of 62. He had left his cubby-hole office just off the White House foyer one afternoon, gone home, been suddenly stricken with a heart attack. Declared President Roosevelt who had known...
...Benjamin H. Day got out that issue in his dirty little printing shop on William Street because financial panic and an epidemic of cholera had brought his business to a standstill. It was a tiny four-page sheet with the wrong date-1832 instead of 1833-printed under the mast- head. It promised to report all the news of the day. In two months it had 2,000 subscribers, within a year 10,000. But not until 1835 did the Sun become famous. And then it was the moon that made it so. A cross-eyed reporter named Richard Adams...
...Chicago area. An efficient "old school" soldier, General Brown is blunt, baldpated, muscular. Son of an Army colonel, he went to Yale, got his appointment to West Point while serving as an enlisted man in the regular army. His successor in the Panama Department is Major General Harold Benjamin Fiske who was last week promoted from brigadier and shifted from command of the Atlantic sector to command of the whole department. Large-boned, calm Major General Ed- win Baruch Winans, sportsman and socialite, commander of the 8th Corps Area (San Antonio), to duty with the General Staff in Washington...
...cough. That set the pattern for the extraordinary way in which Mrs. Moody's supremacy in women's tennis, unchallenged for seven years, ended last week. In the first game of the third set, she double-faulted twice, so feebly that the crowd grew restless and Umpire Benjamin Dwight had to hold up his hand for silence. Helen Jacobs won that game and the next, from 0-30. Serving again, Mrs. Moody won one point and then lost four in a row. She walked to the side of the net as though to change courts, held...
...year. Three of those arrested, stable boys who had sold heroin, were last week given jail sentences of one to three years. Ten others were indicted by a Federal grand jury in Chicago under the Harrison Anti-Narcotic Act. They included four owners-Hal Price Headley, A. A. Baroni, Benjamin Creech and Jack Howard-also Creech's son-in-law, Ivan Parke, famed jockey of ten years ago, a Lexington veterinarian and four exercise boys...