Word: benjamin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...When Congressional committees sit in executive session, no outsiders are supposed to be present. Twice last fortnight Senator Wheeler and Representative Rayburn, nominal authors of the Public Utility Bill and enthusiastic champions of its "death sentence" clause for certain holding companies, took to conference with them PWA Counsel Benjamin Victor Cohen, young Roosevelt legalite and actual co-author of the bill. Twice that fiery little "death sentence" hater, Representative George Huddleston of Alabama, balked at the presence of a Presidential spokesman, broke up the conference by stomping out in the company of two Republican colleagues...
...rawboned, ugly "Tony" Biddle went to St. Paul's School where, like his father, he ably mixed Christianity and athletics. He did not go to college. Instead, in 1915, aged 18, he married Mary Duke, who eventually fell heir to the millions of her father, Benjamin Newton Duke, brother of the late great Tobacco-Tycoon James Buchanan ("Buck") Duke. In 1931, after bearing him two children, Mary Duke Biddle divorced her husband, who shortly married Mrs. Margaret Thompson Schulze, daughter & heiress of the late Col. William Boyce Thompson, mining tycoon. With a superbly shaped pair of shoulders, lean, muscular...
...morning three months ago Principal Benjamin W. Johnson of the Frank...
...from Bernard Mannes Baruch (in Paris): "This is a particularly happy day for me as the dream of my father to have a place where the suffering could be healed and made better able to face their daily problem comes true." And "Bernie" Baruch's brother, Dr. Herman Benjamin Baruch, wired: "This indeed is a permanent monument to our dear father . . . Dr. Simon Baruch...
Because Rubberman Benjamin Franklin Goodrich, sometime physician, had been dead 18 years, no one at B. F. Goodrich Co. realized that a chunky, broad-shouldered young man who reported for work at the Akron factory one day in 1906 was the founder's nephew. James Dinsmore Tew, just out of Harvard and anxious to prove his worth, did not take the trouble to remind his employers that B. F. Goodrich Co. had once been called Goodrich, Tew & Co. At the end of two years, when young Tew was making $75 a month, he asked for a raise...