Word: benjamin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Railroad was laid, Bolivar's rich bottomlands were an uninhabited jungle. The railroad, eager for customers along the route, but fearing that white men would die off under the hot summer sun, decided to try Negroes. Isaiah T. Montgomery, a onetime slave of Jefferson Davis, and his cousin Benjamin T. Green were induced to start a colony. Thus was founded the town of Mound Bayou. Last week every day was carnival in Mound Bayou, for it was celebrating its 50th anniversary as a self-governing 100% Negro community...
Died. John Devinney Shibe, 65, part owner of the Philadelphia Athletics baseball club: of pneumonia; in Philadelphia. Business manager of the Athletics from 1901. when his father Benjamin F. Shibe and Connie Mack founded the team, until his father's death in 1924, he resigned as president last January, was succeeded by 74-year-old Manager Connie Mack...
...Victims of malaria sometimes do. And many a syphilitic, especially after a few injections of antisyphilitic drugs, gives a false negative reaction. Most reliable tests, the Committee on Evaluation announced, are Dr. John Kolmer's of Philadelphia, Dr. Reuben Kahn's of the University of Michigan, Dr. Benjamin S. Kline's of Cleveland...
...peak, has lately been cinema producers' most pressing problem. Last week in Hollywood they found a solution: to represent them as labor arbitrator, the eight major companies included in the Producers Association (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Paramount, Warner Bros., Twentieth Century-Fox, RKO, United Artists, Universal and Columbia) elected Benjamin Bertram Kahane, for the last year right-hand man to Columbia's President Harry Kohn. Bald, hook-nosed Ben Kahane, 45, is a onetime Chicago lawyer who became general counsel for the old Orpheum Circuit, and got into cinema when the Radio-Keith-Orpheum Corporation was formed...
...more time to raising his black irises, known by his name to most U. S. horticulturists. The "Chance" also likes fishing, shooting ducks at his camp in Magnetawan, Ont., discussing anything under the sun with his wife Mary, listening to prize fight broadcasts with his son-in-law, Professor Benjamin Meritt of Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study. Kirkland crotchets include a dislike of bond salesmen and newspapermen, refusal to improve his ill-fitting false teeth, a fondness for maxims like: "I don't have time to make up anyone's mind...