Word: benjamin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years ago and still likes to go occasionally to a night club. Moreover, he remembers that he also got his start in politics at a convention-the Republican Convention of 1880, where he cast 36 successive votes for U. S. Grant-and that he was only 37 when Benjamin Harrison named him to the Federal bench. Placidly Judge Buffington read a passage from the Bible, made a little speech welcoming young Judge Biggs as a helper to "four...
...coalminers' sons sat at a walnut-stained steel desk in a Pittsburgh office last week, swaying the lives of at least a half-million other men, shaping the destiny of the whole U. S. One of them, dynamically champing a stogie, was Benjamin Franklin Fairless, a dark, stocky, kinetic corporation executive. The other, suavely puffing a cigaret, was Philip Murray, a lean, grey, scholarly labor leader. When their first talk was over the Labor Leader cried, and no impartial observer disputed him: "This is unquestionably the greatest story in the history of the American Labor movement...
...Died. Benjamin Thaw, 47, onetime First Secretary to the U. S. Embassies in Brussels, Paris and London, husband of the former Consuelo Morgan (sister of Mrs. Gloria Vanderbilt and Lady Furness); of heart disease; in Manhattan...
...Steel had assumed its pristine place as the stockmarket's undisputed leader. Evident it was by now that some people either knew or suspected that a long and costly showdown between the Steel Corporation and the CIO was not inevitable. Sure enough, the announcement soon came that President Benjamin F. Fairless of U. S. Steel's biggest operating subsidiary, Carnegie-Illinois Steel, was conferring with the Steel Workers Organizing Committee, followed by the historic revelation that Chairman Myron C. Taylor had reversed U. S. Steel's long-fought stand against Organized Labor in a series of heart...
Honduras: Louis K. Benjamin '39, chairman; Lawrence F. Ebb '39; John C. Wahlke '39; George F. Bogardus '39; John I. Mahler '40; and James Tobin...