Word: benjamin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Over that much-de-bated law Brooklyn's Major Benjamin...
...then quit on Sunday night, plunging a city of 330,000 into darkness. All police were put on 24-hr, duty and companies of National Guardsmen were sent to help them keep the peace. With the water rising 2 ft. an hour and the rain still falling, Governor Albert Benjamin ("Happy'') Chandler telephoned President Roosevelt that the emergency had reached such proportions that Federal troops were needed. For stricken Louisville he declared martial law. The whole nation was given front row seats at the Ohio valley's tragedy through Louisville radio station WHAS...
...week in New Orleans, the Times-Picayune (circulation: 116,673 daily. 158,-544 Sunday) joined the roster of 96 U. S. dailies more than 100 years old. A 274-page edition, a deal of civic celebration marked the stanch old journal's centennial. Once suspended by Union General Benjamin ("Beast") Butler, the Picayune was edited in its palmiest post-Reconstruction days by Mrs. Eliza Poitevent Holbrook Nicholson, who married the paper's publisher and then its business manager when he died. In 1914, the Picayune swallowed the Times-Democrat. The Times-Picayune, whose last great battle was with...
...Benny Lynch, tiny Scotch farmer: the flyweight (112 Ib.) championship of the world; by defeating Benjamin ("Sma11") Montana of Manila, U. S. flyweight champion, in 15 rounds; at London's Wembley Club. Smallest recognized class in prize fighting, established in 1910, flyweights have had only one other recognized world champion, Pancho Villa, who died in 1925. ¶ The Yale swimming team, coached by Bob Kiphuth, who last winter started the practice of observing his squad from the bottom of the pool (TIME, Jan. 20, 1936 ): its 154th consecutive intercollegiate dual meet; 60-to-15 against Pennsylvania, in its debut...
...Benjamin F. Rogers, Jr. '40, second speaker for the affirmative, pointed out that "economic royalists" dragged us into the last war for the sake if illusory profits, by supplying the Allies with arms, munitions, supplies and money. "We are practically a self sufficient nation," he remarked, " and do not have to run the risk inherent in supplying instruments of war to belligerents...