Word: benjamin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...everyone knew that Miss Lape was Stokowski's choice for manager. Nor did the letter refer to the board's decision to offer the job to Benjamin ("Pep") Ludlow, a Philadelphia lawyer better acquainted with welfare work than with music. The end of Stokowski's statement was suitably regretful: "I am sad at the thought that I must now leave the Orchestra that I have worked so hard to help build up. ... I wish to pass over in silence and forget our deep-lying differences of opinion and remember "only the beauty and inspiration of the music we have made...
...following Freshmen have been chosen to compete with M.I.T. as the result of elimination held earlier this week: 118-pound class, Benjamin Gordon; 126-pound class, Edmund V. C. Anderson, Jr.; 135-pound class, Charles C. Daughaday; 145-pound class, Henry R. Ames; 155-pound class, Paul M. Glendinning; 165-pound class, John C. Harkness; 175-pound class, David S. Glueck; unlimited, William T. Glendinning...
Among the patronesses for the play which were announced last night, are Mrs. James B. Conant, Mrs. George H. Edgell, Mrs. Clarence H. Haring, Mrs. Robert Hillyer, Mrs. Benjamin Jones, Mrs. Roger I. Lee, Mrs. Roger B. Merriman, Mrs. Kenneth B. Murdock, Mrs. Edmund K. Rand, Mrs. Paul J. Sachs, and Mrs. Roger T. Twitchell...
...Farley, it now appeared, was ready to be called "the greatest Postmaster General since Benjamin Franklin." But last week Ashmun N. Brown, alert Washington correspondent for the Providence Journal, dug out of the Treasury report the old fact of the Post Office's $52,000,000 deficit. Explanation of the Farley surplus, he showed, lay in the vague and inconspicuous phrase about "adjustments" for "certain subventions and free mailing services." That covered Post Office expenditures of $64,000,000?the cost of ocean and air mail subsidies, the estimated cost of carrying free government mail. To create his surplus...
...spring of 1787 George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton and 52 other distinguished revolutionists gathered in Philadelphia to found a more perfect Union. Out of that long, sultry summer's work there was evolved a notable document scrupulously delimiting the powers and prerogatives of a proposed Federal Government. To Congress was granted right to tax, to provide for the common defense, "to regulate commerce with foreign nations and among the several states and with the Indian tribes," to coin money, issue patents, hang pirates. Subsequently attached to the original Constitution was a Bill of Rights which ended thus: "The powers...