Word: benjamin
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Munson told the Senate Internal Security subcommittee that Fairbank and Benjamin I. Schwartz '38, assistant professor of History, were among a group of six persons proposed by diplomat John P. Davies to guide the C.I.A. in its Far Eastern activities in November...
Both critics and defenders of the letter expressed their viewpoints sharply last night. "The academic sculptors are afraid someone might cut in on their commissions," commented Benjamin Rowland Jr. '28, professor of Fine Arts. "If you come right down to it, academic sculpture is more expressive of the Nazi and Communist party lines than anything which shows freedom of expression," he said...
...Socony's President Benjamin Brewster Jennings, 53, and apple-cheeked Chairman George V. Holton, 61, have changed all that. In the six postwar years, they have plowed $570 million into exploring and developing new fields, drilled 3,686 producing wells and 628 dry ones, developed more new oil reserves than any other U.S. company. As a result, Socony's proved domestic reserves have climbed from 1,121,000,000 bbls. in 1946 to 1,641,000,000. It has tapped an immense pool in its Pegasus Field in Texas, is one of the biggest explorers in North Dakota...
Brewster's Millions. Longtime associates of unassuming Brewster Jennings fondly call him "a rich man's son who made good in spite of it." Both his paternal and maternal grandfathers, Benjamin Brewster and Oliver B. Jennings, had helped stake John D. Rockefeller, became his partners in running the Standard Oil Trust and left huge fortunes.* As one of their heirs, young Jennings, after graduation from Yale in 1920, had no trouble landing a job with Socony (then Standard Oil Co. of New York) as a clerk in the marine department. Soon he was purchasing agent, then real-estate...
Some of the historical figures to be considered in the series are Benjamin Franklin, John Marshall, Abraham Lincoln, Woodrow Wilson, and Franklin D. Roosevelt...