Word: benjamin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Arizona. A political babe-in-arms who never before held public office is 70-year-old Governor Benjamin Baker Moeur of Tempe. During his campaign Democrat Moeur promised all his friends jobs. Last week he was in hot water because he found he had more friends than jobs. A physician, he employs his bedside manner in public. Newsmen consider him profane. Politicians consider him radical. The common people consider him their liberal savior who will somehow deal them reduced taxes...
Barter. By far the most completely organized and successful barter group now operating is the Natural Development Association of Salt Lake City. It was organized by Benjamin B. Stringham, a realtor, during the harvest time of 1931 when city laborers needed food but had no money to buy it and farmers needed hands but had no money to pay them. The laborers worked for farm produce. The N. D. A. now operates an oil refinery, two canning factories, a tannery, a coal mine. It has a two-story headquarters at Salt Lake City in which it maintains a produce...
...Varsity will enter the Toronto encounter without having met an opponent since the game in Montreal on December 23. Practice sessions however have resulted in a shift in the first forward' wall which probably assures a place in the starting lineup for lan Baldwin '33 at left wing and Benjamin Beale '34, who has been transferred to right wing from his defense position of the early season. The first string defense remains the same for the Toronto tilt...
...black hair on top of her head, taught to walk with mincing steps, compelled to use the adjective "velly" in a squeaky treble. She does it all as prettily as could be expected in Madame Butterfly, expensively handled as an individual production by Paramount's onetime production chief, Benjamin Percival Schulberg...
Bald, burly, able Artist George Benjamin Luks, 65, onetime signpainter, circus Wagon decorator, newspaper cartoonist in Cuba, oldtime rowdy Bohemian, began to worry about making a sideshow spectacle of himself after promising the Artists' Cooperative Market in Manhattan that he would paint a portrait of Dancer Doris Humphrey, for charity, before an audience of gaping New Yorkers. Coming well fortified for the ordeal, Artist Luks leaped on the platform, shouted at the astonished gathering: "I'm George Luks and I'm a rare bird! . . . You might as well leave the platform, young woman...