Word: benjamin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most important business: Chief Justice Hughes pronounced an eulogy of their colleague, Benjamin Nathan Cardozo, who had died soon after last term's end. "In-expressibly saddened." was Chief Justice Hughes's sentiment for the whole Court. Next most important: 31 lawyers-all men-were formally admitted to practice before the Court...
...District Court, Manhattan, indictments were returned charging alleged practitioners of this racket with combined finaglings which had deprived the U.S. Treasury of some $500,000. Indicted were President Harry Triandafillou of Royal Cigarette Corp., Abraham Goodman & Lewis H. Sugarman (makers of Kismet and special club brands), and Retailer Benjamin Seckler. If convicted on all counts, Mr. Triandafillou's company faces a maximum $25,000 fine, himself 123 years in prison...
...Also returning from Europe, Lawyer Benjamin Cohen of the White House Janizariat was besieged by newshawks, insisted he had had nothing but vacation. When the newshawks eyed his bulging briefcase he declared its contents: not State papers, but the Cohen pajamas and toothbrush...
...Greenwich Village A.C.A. Gallery of Herman Baron, patron of proletarians, an exhibition of work by eight young sculptors contained some of the best and some of the worst artistic efforts seen in that neighborhood in years. In the first category were Isamu Noguchi's Monument to Benjamin Franklin, gay, shiny and abstract suggestion of key, kite and lightning; Vladimir Yoffe's Design for Keystone, a powerfully carved hunk; and Milton Hebald's bronze Girl Walking (see cut), a 12-in. figure which almost anybody would like. Critics thought it a promising departure for young Mr. Hebald...
...BENJAMIN FRANKLIN-Carl Van Doren−Viking...