Word: benjamin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cincinnati's. Last week one of its 50 seats sold for $1,500 compared to a 1929 high of $20,000. The St. Louis market is largely investment, and 90 out of the 100 issues traded are local. A thousand shares is currently a big day. President is Benjamin Franklin Jacobs, 57, a cordial, smartly-dressed broker who thinks that the SEC is a very good thing indeed...
During the dinner, Robert H. Rawson '36, retiring chairman of the House Committee, presented Benjamin F. Wright, assistant professor of Government, with a silver cigarette case in recognition of his services as acting House Master during the first half of the current year...
...Benjamin Franklin, sent to Paris by the Continental Congress, signed with France a Treaty of Amity and Commerce. The treaty not only boomed U. S.-French trade but enabled Franklin to wangle large loans from a hesitant French Finance Minister. Impressed with the possibilities of such treaties for his then tiny and unprosperous country, Franklin brought Sweden and Prussia in on similar pacts...
...Busy Benjamin Franklin crowded into one long life enough activities to do several normally energetic men. As No. 1 citizen and foreign agent of Pennsylvania Colony and later as first U. S. Ambassador to France, he knew the political bigwigs of England and Europe, was highly esteemed by many an 18th Century intellectual. Franklin also found time to sit for an astonishing number of portraits, became in his own right a respectable art patron. Last week New York's Metropolitan Museum opened an exhibition, billed as "Benjamin Franklin and His Circle," which included, along with some 350 works...
...Benjamin R. Townsend '87 succeeds Paul C. Henshaw '86 as Varsity Crew manager in the new managerial staff announced last night, as Glibert E. Jones '88 becomes assistant manager...