Word: benjamin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...paltry appeal to the women's vote, they have chosen to make Martha Washington half again as valuable as her worthy spouse. Thomas Jefferson, whose name rests on his plan for sending Black Fact Indians to Harvard, is given the coveted three-cent berth. And with grim irony Benjamin Franklin, who enjoyed the title of Post master General for North America, is now reduced almost to extinction; he will grace the half-cent issue...
Although I have found TIME heretofore a very exacting magazine, I noticed an error in the Feb. 14 issue. The party, or "Mock Bachelors' Cotillion" as you termed it [which young Blaine Fairless, son of U.S. Steel's Benjamin Fairless, helped organize], actually had a receiving line of young men [not young women] holding bouquets of vegetables. Mr. Fairless was one of this number...
Ohio-born Mary Scott Lord Dimmick had been widowed by Lawyer Walter Erskine Dimmick when she married Benjamin Harrison-in 1896, four years after he left the White House, five years before he died. Last week the Senate Pensions Committee favorably reported a bill grant Mrs. Harrison, now nearing 80, a $5,000 annuity such as other Presidential widows have received, but Massachusetts David Ignatius Walsh found it his unpleasant duty" to file a formal protest. Pointing out that Mrs. Harrison never "shared the burdens of official life with President Harrison" and that both her husbands left her trust funds...
...Wilson, Palomar Mountain Observatories in California; of heart disease; in Pasadena, Calif. Foremost U. S. authority on the sun, Dr. Hale discovered magnetic fields in sun spots, for his discovery won the British Royal Society's Sir Godfrey Copley medal, of which the first award was to Scientist Benjamin Franklin...
...Lowman 139 Edward L. Barnes 133 Caspar W. Weinberger 122 George F. Roberts 73 TREASURER *George von L. Meyer, 3d 105 Richard T. Davis 103 Peter T. Brooks 90 Richard O. Ulin 87 H. Shippen Goodhue 69 David Emerson 52 Oglesby Paul 49 CHORISTER *Robert W. Snyder 232 Benjamin Welles, 2d 143 David H. Kimball 102 Secor D. Browne 68 ODIST *Morris Earle 226 James C. Higgins 113 Stanley A. Miller 109 John M. Graham 86 ORATOR *Wiley E. Mayne 129 John L. Calvocaressi 109 John A. Sullivan 89 Jose K. P. deVaron 88 Lyman B. Burbank 86 Richard...