Word: benjamin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...head, but the resemblance ended there. Hines was a former Confederate cavalryman from Kentucky who had made a reputation with Morgan's Raiders. Cool, intelligent and apparently without fear, he had been assigned to espionage work by the Confederacy's Secretary of State Judah P. Benjamin. In Confederate Agent, Author Horan tries to prove that Captain Hines was the mastermind of a gigantic plot to defeat the North from within. Hines's chief weapon: a vast, fifth-column army of Copperheads whose leaders Hines was to inspire and direct. That the plot did not work, says Horan...
Maynard M. Canfield of New York City; Dwight F. Davis 3d of Southampton, N. Y.; Douglas S, Gardner of Hamden, Conn.; James R. Hammond Jr. of Marblehead, Mass.; Benjamin H. Hechscher (Capt.) of Devon, Pa.; Henry C. Holmes of Hampton, Conn.; John W. Lonsdale Jr. of New York City; Grayson M. Murphy 3d of New York City; Charlton MacVeagh Jr. of Webster Groves, Mo.; Anthony M. Ostheimer of Whitford, Pa.; Henry C. Place of Rosemont, Pa.; Robert P. Goold (Mgr.) of Ventura, Calif...
...confused with "restful" music, which, without says well-defined Benjamin, "is melody; the slow and kind of soft music and a man can enjoy while dining with his wife...
...regard music as I do food," says New Orleans Industrialist (chemicals) Edward B. Benjamin. "I relish different types at different times." Last year he decided that there was not enough "tranquil" music in the world, so he established a $1,000 Benjamin Award to encourage more of it. Music Lover Benjamin's specifications: compositions would have to be: I) for full orchestra, 2) of not more than ten minutes' duration, 3) tranquil. Benjamin's further explanation: "Hundreds of thousands of Americans bring work home at night. Tranquil music is the kind that can be listened...
...Very nice music," nodded Donor Benjamin. He ordered it recorded for his home collection and set up another tranquillity award for next year...