Word: benjamin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Added attraction at the execution of 22-year-old Rainey Bethea, who raped and strangled a 70-year-old white woman, was Kentucky's only female sheriff, plump, matronly Mrs. Florence Thompson. When her husband died four months ago. Governor Albert Benjamin ("Happy") Chandler passed his job on to her. It thus became her duty to spring the trap under Bethea. A devout Roman Catholic, Sheriff Thompson consulted her priest, learned from him that nothing in canon law prohibited her from sending the blackamoor to his legal death. Protestant churchmen concurred. Nevertheless, soft-hearted Sheriff Thompson sighed: "I suppose...
...Workers Alliance delegates marched on Washington to hold convention and see Franklin Roosevelt, who was vacationing in the South. After tongue-lashing the Government's relief policies, they voted by "129,958-to-21,413" to unite with other jobless unions, notably the National Unemployment Councils, Communist Herbert Benjamin's organization of radical-minded unemployed which had been staging intermittent "hunger marches" on the U. S. Capitol ever since 1931. Three weeks later, members of this new and larger Workers Alliance invaded Trenton, N. J., occupied the State House, jeered the Legislature with abandon, were finally thrown...
...elementary schoolteaching jobs, since most State Boards of Education so frame their course and credit requirements that many ordinary college graduates are promptly disqualified. That the normal school subsists on a realm of privileged technical training is the belief of many a U. S. educational observer. Last week Professor Benjamin De Kalbe Wood of Columbia University's Department of Educational Research reported a survey of normal schools that provided their critics with authoritative ammunition. Said...
...years, a Democratic convention city was not overrun with rival candidates for the nomination. In Philadelphia there was only one headquarters, in the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel. A tight little headquarters it was, with Chairman Farley behind one closed door, Pressagent Charles Michelson behind another, Thomas Corcoran and Benjamin Cohen, New Deal ideologists, behind a third...
...Denver early next morning Governor Edwin C. Johnson and Mayor Benjamin F. Stapleton, both Democrats, were at the station to greet Colorado's distinguished guest. The party piled into automobiles and, with Nominee Landon leaning out to shake hands wherever his car stopped, motored through Denver and out to a rented 1,200-acre ranch near Estes Park, in Roosevelt National Forest, where the Landon family was to spend the summer. In the big, low, rambling ranch-house that afternoon newshawks found the Republican nominee stretched out before a log fire in breeches and windbreaker, scratching away...