Word: benjamin
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...President quoted four people-all chosen for the conservative sanctity which surrounds their names. To square himself with the ancient virtues, he endorsed Benjamin Franklin's apothegm that "the way to wealth is through work." To justify the "interference of government in business" he quoted Abraham Lincoln and the G. O. P.'s most famed Elder Statesman Elihu Root. To justify the New Deal's constitutionality he quoted "the great Chief Justice White...
...committee, to administer the Student Council Scholarships which are being given this year following a plan inaugurated last Spring, was elected last night at the Student Council meeting. The members of the Committee are as follows: E. Francis Bowditch '35, chairman, Francis D. Moore '35, Charles F. Woodard '35, Benjamin H. Hallowell '36, and Benjamin Gibbs...
...Lewis '35, Secretary, Francis D. Moore '35, Treasurer, Edwin I. Brainard '35, Herman Gundlach, Jr. '35, Thomas H. Hunter '35, Thomas F. Locke '35, Arthur S. Pier '35, Arthur W. Todd '35, Franklin P. Whitbeck '35, Charles F. Woodard '35, Anthony A. Bliss '36, Robert C. Hall '36, Benjamin H. Hallowell '36, Robert S. Playfair '36, Shaun Kelly, Jr. '36, and Benjamin Gibbs...
...President of the United States had the political wisdom to quote Benjamin Franklin in a recent speech. He referred to Franklin's statement that wealth was acquired by honest, hard work. But he failed to add that one of Franklin's famous maxims was: "A penny saved is a penny earned". If he had done this, however, he would have contradicted the policy which Herbert Hoover's administration initiated and what Franklin Roosevelt's administration is continuing; namely, that of encouraging the American citizen to get rich by spending. Fortunately, however, our President probably realized that Franklin's coffin...
Judah Philip Benjamin Research Fellowship: Jerome Hall, of Grand Forks, No. Dak., Professor of Law at the University of North Dakota, Ph.B. Chicago 1922, J.D. ibid...