Word: benjamin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Judge Benjamin Barr Lindsey, one-time tub-thumper for companionate marriage and a Superior Court Justice in Los Angeles, called a halt to a psychopathic hearing in his crowded courtroom, snapped on the radio, announced: "This court will now listen to the greatest madman in the world," tuned in on a rebroadcast of Hitler's Reichstag speech for one-half hour...
...last week on as extraordinary a brace of diplomats as any U. S. President has ever had on a serious diplomatic battlefield. His favorite sentinel abroad is Ambassador to France Bill Bullitt: bald, slim, elegant, as close a student of all Europe as was that other rich Philadelphian, Dr. Benjamin Franklin. By placement more important now is autonomous Joe Kennedy in London: hearty, gum-chewing, tough-minded as Bismarck. Both have achieved in almost unprecedented measure the confidence of the Governments and the peoples to whom they are accredited. Neither France nor Great Britain has for years...
Divorced. Judith Anderson (real name, Frances Margaret Anderson), 41, Australian-born Broadway actress (Strange Interlude, Family Portrait), from Benjamin Harrison Lehman, University of California English professor and minor novelist (best-known work: Wild Marriage); in Carson City, Nev. Grounds: mental cruelty...
...time in Hollywood (which he hated), most of it around the New York theatre. This fall he was to have put on his first play under the banner of Manhattan's new, highly successful Playwrights company, was working on an adaptation of Van Doren's biography of Benjamin Franklin the morning he was killed. That morning also, Father-in-law Damrosch got word that Martin Wolfe, another daughter's divorced husband, had died from a fall July 30 while mountain climbing in Tibet...
...changed to the management side of the tracks, and in 1933 as president of U. S. Steel's subsidiary, H. C. Frick Coke Co., carried the ball for Steel in its first New Deal struggle with labor. His successor: tall, greying Yaleman John Gephart Munson, one of President Benjamin Fairless' new order of hardheaded operating men who believe in placating labor...