Word: benjamin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Died. Benjamin Henry Throop, 46, dilettante fourth-generation owner of the Throop Coal Mines (Scranton and Throop, Pa.), heir to a fortune once estimated at $68,000,000, president of the Shepherd Dog Club of America; of an intestinal ailment; in Manhattan...
...must also work on the Times. Willingly Arthur quit the silk business at which he had worked for his father, Cyrus L. Sulzberger. From his philanthropist father, Arthur had acquired a big urge for civic responsibility, and family pride in the fact that his great-great-grandfather was Lieut. Benjamin Mendes Seixas of the American Colonial Army...
...Juniors nominated, including the present Student Council members from the Class, are: Arthur Atwood Ballantine, Jr., Anthony Addison Bliss, Thornton Brown, Frank Stanton Deland, Jr., Raymond Dennett, Braman Gibbs, Milton Gabriel Green, John Robert Haley, Robert Carlton Hall, Benjamin Harding Hallowell, Shaun Kelly, Jr., Francis Keyes, Milton Zelig Paisner, Robert Smith Playfair, Henry Varnum Poor, Edwin Howard Baker Pratt, Thomas Henry Quinn, Robert Morton Terrall, and LeMoyne White...
...years ago when Companionate Marriage seemed to be an exciting issue and Judge Benjamin Barr Lindsey toured the land debating it, polite audiences were accustomed to vote the Denver judge victor over whoever happened to be his adversary. But not in Philadelphia. There, balloting to choose a local figure to debate with Judge Lindsey, 5,000 people overwhelmingly picked Rev. Dr. Robert Bruce Whyte, pastor of Philadelphia's biggest church, First Presbyterian. After the debate, the Philadelphians owlishly upheld their choice, handed Ben Lindsey the first defeat he ever experienced...
...facts that their bird is a bully, thief, coward, eater of carrion. It is so lazy that rather than hunt its own food it prefers to steal the prey of smaller birds. Better yet it likes to avoid all effort by finding its meal rotting in the sun. When Benjamin Franklin, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson were appointed in 1776 to design a national seal, they chose the double eagle of the Holy Roman Empire. After lesser men had substituted the bald eagle, Naturalist Franklin wrote...