Word: benjamin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Proudest president was Father Arthur A. O'Leary of Georgetown University, on the Potomac's banks in Washington, D. C., as Georgetown celebrated its 150th anniversary. Founded by John Carroll, a friend of Benjamin Franklin and the first Roman Catholic bishop in the U. S., Georgetown is the oldest U. S. Catholic college. For the occasion President O'Leary staged elaborate ceremonies, gathered many a bigwig for kudos and speeches (among them: Speaker William B. Bankhead, U. S. Attorney-General Frank Murphy, head G-Man J. Edgar Hoover, American Bar Association President Frank J. Hogan). To President...
...together.* As it is, they are the most sectarian of sects. Their local congregations distrust creeds, abhor ecclesiastics, are not bound by anything the Conventions say or do. Last week the Southern Baptist Convention, concluding its meeting in Oklahoma City, remained equally independent toward interchurch unity. Baptist John Benjamin Lawrence spoke for his brethren when he deplored the "vast enveloping movement which aims to tie Baptists up in a bundle with other bodies with which they have no ecclesiastical affinity." The Convention shelved for at least a year a proposal to join the slowly growing World Council of Churches...
...mildly good time. But he would be having a better time if he were extracting great ranges of dynamics and tone color from his instrument. To make amateurs feel like virtuosos has been, in recent years, one great object of U. S. electrical engineers. Six years ago Radio Engineer Benjamin Franklin Miessner patented an electronic piano, in which pickups and a loudspeaker do the work of a sounding board and make amateurs dynamic enough to bring in the neighbors. Today eight companies are licensed to make electronics. Last week big Radio Corporation of America entered this potentially large field...
...William Henry Harrison (ninth President) was a Virginian; Reader Rosema meant Benjamin Harrison (23rd). Overlooked: Ulysses Simpson Grant, born in a cabin at Point Pleasant, 22 miles up the Ohio River from Cincinnati. Reader Rosema will find the cabin, restored, a part of Grant Memorial Park...
Collectors have been assigned to each entry in the Houses. The men in charge are as follows: Eliot, Quinby Taylor '41, Roger S. Schafer '41; Dunster, Joel C. Goldthwait '40, Philip L. Strong '40; Adams, Thomas lacey '41, Robert A. James '41; Leverett, Harry W. Hollmeyer '40, Benjamin Wilcox '40; Lowell, Joseph R. Cramp '40, LeBaron R. Briggs '41; Winthrop, Phillip Thayer '41, Duncan Lane '41; Kirkland. Richard S. Lane '41, Francis M. Shapson...