Word: benjamin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...vacant SEC seat is slated to go to young Benjamin Cohen as soon as that New Deal legalite finishes drafting Administration bills for Congress to rubber stamp...
...Sangamon County, Ill. where a tall, gaunt Republican lawyer once practiced his profession, another tall Republican lawyer today collects Lincolniana. His name is Benjamin Savage DeBoice. For five years Lawyer DeBoice has served as probate judge in Sangamon County. He helped to send Springfield's ex-Mayor John S. Schnepp to jail for embezzling money from an estate, won a high reputation for strict, conservative decisions governing administrators of estates. To a Springfield trust company which asked his permission to invest the funds of seven estates in U. S. Government bonds-most famed of all conservative investments-he last...
With some pride, the New York Public Library last week announced that it had just received as a gift an arrant forgery to add to its notable collection of autographs. The document, purporting to be a brief letter in the handwriting of Benjamin Franklin, was gladly accepted by the library, for, according to Manhattan Autograph Expert Thomas F. Madigan, it was a fine specimen of the handiwork of Robert Spring, one of the most notorious autograph forgers in U. S. history. While hundreds of unwitting collectors have cabinets filled with Robert Spring autographs, wiseacres are willing to pay large sums...
...about 1858 to open a bookshop. Not until he had a chance to sell a small but genuine collection of early U. S. autographs did he prosper. Discovering his own ability at copying hand-writings, he started in a small way by putting the signatures of George Washington and Benjamin Franklin (his favorite characters) on the fly leaves of old books. As his skill grew, so did his audacity. To make detection more difficult, most of the Spring forgeries were sent to England and Canada for sale and circulation. Because Britain was still sentimentally fond of the Confederate States, Forger...
Left. By the late Benjamin Newton Duke, last of the Duke tobacco triumvirate (Father Washington Duke. Brother James Buchanan Duke): $7,879,850 ($66,000,000 was estimated at his death in 1929). Beneficiaries: Daughter Mary Duke Biddle, divorced wife of Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle Jr., and 22 charitable, religious and educational institutions...