Word: benjamin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Neither Mr. Taylor nor Mr. Lewis attended the Biltmore conference. This year, as last, formal negotiations were left to those two sons of pick-&-shovel coal miners-Laborman Philip Murray and Steelman Benjamin Franklin Fairless. With the aid of their respective delegations, they simply put in black & white the generalities previously agreed upon. For the union, the new contract is not so favorable as the old. In the face of Recession's realities, John L. Lewis had been forced to yield ground...
Among those trying out for principal parts are Joseph R. Coolidge, Jr. '39, Benjamin F. Dillingham '39, Frank D. Lawrence '39, William W. Myrick '39, Peter H. Nicholas '39, Thomas R. Macy '40, and Augustus W. Soule...
...music has been written by Alan J. Lerner '40, Stanley A. Miller '38, and Benjamin Welles, II '38. J. David Lannon, Jr. '39 has written the lyrics for the show...
...world indoor record (on boards) for 60 yards has stood at 6.2 seconds for 15 years. Famed sprinters like Jesse Owens, Eddie Tolan, Ralph Metcalfe have tried but failed to break it. But last week astonished spectators saw Benjamin Washington Johnson of Columbia, a little Negro who is long on medals but short on publicity, register three lightning flashes: the first heat in 6.2 sec., the semi-final in 6.1, the final in 6 seconds flat. To little Ben Johnson went the Rodman Wanamaker Trophy for the outstanding performance of the meet (Millrose Games) and round-the-world acclaim...
...While President Benjamin F. Fairless of U. S. Steel Corp. was engaged in borrowing $50,000,000 last week (see col. 1), his only son, Elaine, was discovered in the student training course in the Aliquippa, Pa. plant of Big Steel's little competitor, Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. Big, broad-shouldered and 24, Blaine Fairless went to Culver Military Academy, M. I. T. and Babson Institute, from which he graduated last spring. Liked by his fellow workers, he collects phonograph records, moves in a socialite young set. Month ago he and a dozen other gay blades ribbed Pittsburgh debutantes...