Word: benjamin
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...grateful pupil, ascribed to him all New England's learning." The third master was John Lovell, a Tory who on April 19, 1775 said owlishly to his pupils: "War's begun and school is done." Five signers of the Declaration of Independence went to Boston Latin School: Benjamin Franklin, John Hancock, Samuel Adams, Robert Treat Paine, William Hooper. Four Continental Congressmen were graduates, as were six Massachusetts governors, five U. S. Senators, four Harvard presidents including the late great Charles William Eliot. Other Boston Latin pupils: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Charles Graham Sumner, Henry Ward Beecher, Wendell Phillips, Orator...
David Oliver Selznick, executive vice president in charge of stricken Radio~Keith-Orpheum's film production, resigned after prolonged wrangling with President Benjamin Bertram Kahane of the producing subsidiary...
Defense Counsel Benjamin Jefferson Davis Jr., black son of a black father who once bossed the Georgia G. O. P., made things no easier for his client. Loudly recalling that 3,265 Negroes had been lynched in the South since 1885, he cried: "That looks to me like an attempt to overthrow the Government of the United States. Suppose this defendant is a Communist. Did you ever hear of a Communist burning anyone at the stake...
...Benjamin Morris Jeblatosky (Ben Jeby), Hebrew pugilist of Manhattan: the middleweight championship of the world, as defined by the New York State Athletic Commission; by beating Frank Battaglia, Italo-Canadian, by a technical knockout, in twelve rounds; in Manhattan. To have his title universally recognized, Champion Jeby needs a victory over Marcel Thil, French middleweight listed as champion by the National Boxing Association...
...Fisher, Larus & Brother, Continental Tobacco-makers of non-advertised 10?-a-pack brands. The Big Four used to make 90% of all U. S. cigarets and Lucky Strike's George Washington Hill, Camel's Samuel Clay Williams, Chesterfield's Clinton W. Toms, Old Gold's Benjamin L. Belt thought the future was fine and blue (TIME, Oct. 31). Now the Little Four with their Wings, Paul Jones, Twenty Grand, White Rolls sell one out of every five U. S. cigarets. And added to the troubles of Messrs. Hill, Williams, Toms & Belt is the fact that total...