Word: benjamin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ushers include-Gaspur G. Bacon Jr. '37, Arthur A. Ballantine, Jr. '36, Frederick P. Barrett '37, Joseph A. Bloombergh '37, John B. Bowditch '37, Raymond S. Clark '36, Benjamin H. Hallowell '36, Francis Keppel '38, Arthur G. Mitton, Jr. '39, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr. '37, Morritt K. Ruddock '36, and Samuel D., Warron...
...news. What did make news was the fact that a spectacular young political upstart had bucked the old-line Democratic and Republican machines which traditionally divide Kentucky's rule between them, rolled up the biggest majority for Governor in State history. The New Deal gave Lieutenant-Governor Albert Benjamin ("Happy") Chandler a helpful boost toward the Governor's chair. Governor Ruby Laffoon & friends had planned to hand-pick a member of their machine for Democratic nominee at the usual party convention. But potent Kentucky New Dealers got busy on President Roosevelt and a pious letter from him, expressing...
...would be impossible, however, to spoil completely so good a story as that of the career of Benjamin Thompson, born in Woburn, Massachusetts, and Subsequently a Count of the Holy Roman Empire. He was as quarrelsome as he was captivating, as erratic as he was able. He was first a Loyalist spy in the Colonies, then Under-Secretary of State in England, Minister of War in the court of Bavaria, founder of the Royal Institution of Great Britain, and the generally accredited discover of the theory that heat is a form of motion. He laid out the Englische Garten...
...businessmen are again disposed to borrow. The current agitation is over the question of whether the Federal Reserve Board should use its fire-fighting equipment-such as its power to double present reserve requirements- before or after the blaze begins. At the Investment Bankers Association convention last week, Economist Benjamin M. Anderson Jr. of Chase National Bank demanded action now, declaring: "It would be a very serious matter indeed if we came into a period of vigorous, active business and strong speculative temper on the part of the American people with anything like the present volume of excess reserves...
...Died. Benjamin Warner. 79, onetime Polish emigrant, cobbler and delicatessen dealer, father of the cinema's three Warner Brothers (Harry. Albert, Jack); in Youngstown, Ohio...