Word: benjamin
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...jury but six hours to acquit Frank Zintak, who returned to the courtroom when the verdict was brought in long enough to repeat Samuel Insull's lines: "I never in my life did anything wrong." Following a revealing investigation into the Zintak jury's joyride Judge Benjamin P. Epstein last week held the entire panel in contempt of court. Five jurors who drank & danced were sentenced to serve five days in jail. Six who drank but did not dance received three-day sentences. A 37-year-old telephone mechanic named Leo Fahey, who merely watched, was fined...
Founded by Benjamin Franklin in 1727, the American Philosophical Society is the oldest learned body in the U. S. Philosophy was once synonymous with science, and the society's usual convention agenda are almost wholly scientific, with frequent speculative spice and many a dash of human interest. Noteworthy discussions at last week's meeting...
...last March in the Pittsburgh offices of the biggest steel-producing unit in the world, Chairman Philip Murray of the Steel Workers Organizing Committee and President Benjamin Franklin Fairless of Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corp. sat down to seal an historic industrial treaty. The broad outlines of the treaty between Steel and Labor had already been settled by the negotiators' respective superiors, John Llewellyn Lewis for Labor and Myron Charles Taylor for Steel (TIME, March 15). After the first talk Philip Murray declared: "This is unquestionably the greatest story in the history of the American Labor Movement...
Speakers will include Professor Lyman Bryson of Teachers College Columbia University; Eduard C. Lindeman, of the New School for Social Work, New York City; Harold Benjamin, Director of the Center for Continuation Study, University of Minnesota; Henry W. Holmes '03, Dean of the Graduate School of Education; Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology and Director of the Summer School; and Professor Harry A. Overstreet, of the College of the City of New York...
...army as an infantry private. He was smart enough to study shorthand, which enabled him to win a competitive army examination and become a court stenographer with the rank of sergeant. Four years ago Sergeant Batista was scribbling obscurely at courts martial when Franklin Roosevelt sent his friend Benjamin Sumner Welles as Ambassador to see whether the ominous groundswell against ruthless President Gerardo ("The Butcher") Machado could be oiled over without a Revolution...