Word: benjamin
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Lionized by convention delegates was the supposed author of this spoofery, tousle-haired Harold Raymond Wayne Benjamin, Ph.D., director of the College of Education of University of Colorado, onetime cowboy, fisherman, soldier, who can roll two cigarets at once. Dr. Benjamin admitted writing a foreword to the book, of the rest would say only that "It was not written by [Columbia University President] Nicholas Murray Butler...
Married. Carl Van Doren, 53, bang-haired literary critic, author (Benjamin Franklin); and Jean Wright Gorman, 38-year-old Manhattanite; both for the second time; in San Francisco...
Charles Goodyear never visited Akron. His invention arrived there in 1869, eleven years after his death. That year, Dr. Benjamin Franklin Goodrich founded the city's first rubber company, choosing the town because the Ohio & Erie Canal afforded cheap transportation. Goodrich celebrated its 70th birthday last week by announcing a 1938 net of $2,240,119 after a 1937 loss of $878,580. Surpassing it in size are three younger competitors-Firestone Tire & Rubber, U. S. Rubber, Goodyear Tire & Rubber. Goodyear, now the industry's biggest (with 1938 profit of $6,012,423 on net sales...
...Benjamin F. Dillingham...
...names on the list of candidates; the nominee receiving the greatest number of votes will gain the Presidency, while the runner-up will become vice-President. The nominees are: William H. Daughaday, Langdon B. Gilkey, Robert J. Glaser, Nelson Miles, Thomas H. E. Quimby, Joseph S. Stern, Jr., and Benjamin Wilcox...