Word: benjamin
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World Record. Expert cattlemen were as completely surprised as Dairyman Poth. Howard Mason Gore, onetime (1924-25) U. S. Secretary of Agriculture, onetime (1925-29) Governor of West Virginia and a cattleman himself, declared that the largest birth he ever heard of was quadruplets. Benjamin F. Creech, animal husbandry expert at the University of West Virginia, said he thought quintuplets was the most prodigious previous cow birth. Last week in Washington, the American Genetic Association said that quadruple calves occurred in one birth in every half million. For quintuplets and sextuplets they would not even guess at the figures. Neither...
...Died. Benjamin Lloyd Belt, 70, president of the tobacco firm of P. Lorillard Co.; of a heart attack; in Whitefield, N. H. Tobacconist Belt, a horse-loving Virginian, became president of hoary P. Lorillard in 1924, immediately brought out Old Golds to keep pace with younger competitors...
...vigorous unofficial body of U. S. Episcopalians, comparable to the radical Methodist Federation for Social Service, is the Church League for Industrial Democracy. For more than a decade its executive secretary has been an amiable, youngish man named Rev. William Benjamin (''Bill") Spofford, managing editor of The Witness, who rarely wears clericals and once, between parishes, drove a payroll truck in Chicago to support his wife and child. The C. L. I. D., whose president is Bishop Edward Lambe Parsons of California and whose vice president is Bishop Benjamin Brewster of Maine. hates War, Fascism, deplores Capitalism...
Thomas E. Ahern, Alvin B. Allen, William J. Corcoran, Benjamin W. Corey, Joseph J. Coughlan, Henry F. Freniere, Edward Greenberg, James H. Hodgens, Jr., Eugene T. Lovett, Edward J. Maher, Howard B. Monahan, Timothy P. Murphy, Robert F. Regan, Roland E. Shaine, Joseph B. Spitzer, Paul K. Stumpf, Thomas Watkins, Charles B. Woodman, Ely A. Shamieh...
...terms expired and both were replaced. One was San Francisco's Henry H. McPike for whose job the President nominated a San Francisco Democratic leader, Frank J. Hennessy. The other was Los Angeles' Pierson M. Hall, for whose job the President named San Bernardino's Benjamin Harrison. The San Francisco appointment, which had been more or less expected, caused no comment. The Los Angeles appointment caused a political uproar and a tragedy...