Word: benjamin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Among the 22 early birds: Benjamin ("Sell 'em Ben") Smith, demon speculator in oil, gold, airplanes; rich Long Island widow Clara Adams, inveterate first tripper who is trying to round the world in 16 days (for passage on the Graf Zeppelin in 1928 she paid $3,000); Mrs. Elizabeth Stettinius Trippe, wife of Pan American President Juan Terry Trippe; Captain Torkild Rieber, Board Chairman of Texas Corp.; United States Lines President John M. Franklin; Investment Banker Harold Leonard Stuart; a lawyer from Allentown, Pa., named Julius Rapoport; San Francisco Shipowner Roger Lapham, whose American Hawaiian Steamship...
This venerable body, founded by Benjamin Franklin in 1727, became suddenly rich in 1931 when Dr. Richard Alexander Fullerton Penrose of Philadelphia, geologist and mining engineer, left it nearly $5,000,000. It distributes income from this hoard as grants in aid of U. S. research. President of A. P. S. is Roland Sletor Morris, onetime U. S. Ambassador to Japan. Mr. Morris is a busy man. He has a law practice, teaches international law at University of Pennsylvania, is interested in sociology, Pennsylvania politics, collecting U. S. debts from Russia. Three years ago he asked Conklin to take over...
...structure, it looks like a cathedral (its tower was modeled after Canterbury Cathedral's Bell Harry Tower), has 77 costly stained-glass windows, a 50-bell carillon. Off the transept is a memorial room in which Carrara marble figures of Washington Duke and Sons Buck and Benjamin lie in state. Below is a crypt for members of the Duke family. What Professor Blackburn fails to mention, but what no visitor can fail to see, is a ten-foot statue, smack in front of the chapel, of baggy-trousered, clod-hoppered Buck Duke, holding a big cigar...
...paper, with the imprint: Norwegian Publications, Oslo, Norway. Another Salop success was a 1,136-page volume titled Five Sinners and a Saint priced at $1.69. Inside this new literary package readers discovered six time-worn staples-the autobiographies of Madame P'ompadour, Benvenuto Cellini, De Quincey, Rousseau, Benjamin Franklin, St. Augustine. Another time Salop bought an out-of-date civics book. When it did not sell, he dressed it up in a fancy jacket, sold out the edition...
Turner's sea pieces were the wonder of such stay-at-home fellow Academicians as Benjamin West and Sir Thomas Lawrence, who began by comparing them with Claude Lorrain and ended by finding them incomparable. His Snowstorm, for which he prepared by having himself lashed to a mast for four hours during a Channel blizzard, was too much for almost everybody. One of the finest, in his own estimation, was The Fighting Téméraire tugged to her last berth to be broken up, 1838. This sunset picture of a black, belching little tug beside the spectral...