Word: benjamin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plan into effect by removing control of the country's air forces from the commanding generals of nine corps areas and placing it under the personal control of Chief of Staff Douglas MacArthur. Completely relieved of authority except for personnel training and aircraft procurement was Major General Benjamin D. ("Benny") Foulois, Chief of Air Corps...
Baby Pompadour (by Benjamin Graham; Arthur Dreifuss & Willard G. Gernhardt, producers). A program note to Baby Pompadour states: "Benjamin Graham, the author of the play, is a well-known figure in the financial world, and identified with the affairs of many impor tant corporations. He is also the senior author of an authoritative work in 'Security Analysis,' a member of the faculty of Columbia University, and active in the sphere of economics. Playwriting is his hobby and Baby Pompadour is his first...
...Mohawk Valley, a number of notable people were getting into their silk brocaded pajamas for the night. One was Winthrop Williams Aldrich, chairman of the biggest bank in the U. S. Another was the bank's president, Henry Donald Campbell. A third was the bank's brilliant economist, Benjamin M. Anderson Jr. And a fourth was handsome young Nelson Rockefeller, who had nothing to do with the bank except that his father John Davison Rockefeller Jr. is its biggest stockholder and his uncle heads its board of directors...
...Percy Roberts went there. So did five college presidents, one U. S. Congressman, two U. S. Ministers to Liberia. Many of Lincoln's 300-odd students sing in the glee club, find jobs as waiters at Atlantic City in the summer. Among them are such well-named persons as Benjamin Franklin Coleman, Scipio Solomon Johnson, John Milton Smith, Woodrow Wilson Smithey, James Madison Walden...
...taking 14 players, and managers Davenport Scott '35, and Henry B. Robbins '36. The puckchasers selected to make the trip are Samuel R. Callaway '36, Alfred S. Dewey '36, Richard A. Dow '35, Arthur F. Duffey, Jr. '36, Ashton Emerson '36, Leo A. Ecker '37, George S. Ford '37, Benjamin H. Hallowell '36, Michael Hovenanian '36, Dunbar Holmes '35, Frederick R. Moseley, Jr. '36, James A. Roberts '36, Robert A. Waldinger '36, and William P. Watts...