Word: benjamin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Arizona Democrats renominated eloquent Senator Henry Fountain Ashurst because of his long and loyal services, Governor Benjamin Baker Moeur in spite of his State tax program, Congresswoman-at-large Isabella Greenway because of her personal popularity and close connection with the White House...
...what was described as the greatest gold shipment of all time. Two billions in bullion, one-third of all the gold in the land, began to move 1,440 mi. to the U. S. Mint at Denver. And 1,796 mi. farther east, beneath a huge portrait of Benjamin Franklin in his big new Washington office, sat the bald-headed man who was morally, physically and financially responsible for the fabulous shipment. By law it was up to Postmaster General James Aloysius Farley to get the Government's gold from mint door to mint door intact...
...penniless Philadelphia musician pawned a gold, jewel-studded, key-winding watch bearing the inscription: "To Benjamin Franklin, in memoriam, September 3, 1783, David Hartley...
...years Dr. Benjamin Baker ("B. B.") Moeur (pronounced More) was family physician to thousands of people in the countryside around Tempe, Ariz. A hefty, wrinkled-faced man, with a gruff manner and a heart of gold, he talked turkey to his patients, drove miles through the darkest weather to combat indigestion or bring babies into Salt River Valley. Even when in 1932, the wheel of political fortune boosted him from the role of family doctor to Governor of Arizona, he never expected to become the centre of an international incident...
Died. Mrs. Benjamin Warner, 76, mother of the four (Jack, David, Harry, Albert) cinematic Warner Brothers; in Hollywood. Only Brother Jack was at the mother's bedside. The rest arrived too late...