Word: benjamin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from his brothers. On the contrary, he gave generous gifts to them. As for "gold vessels," the only thing of its kind mentioned in the Biblical story was one cup which was not gold but silver. Joseph ordered it to be placed in the sack of his full brother, Benjamin, so he would have a pretext to keep him in Egypt. We all know that Harry Truman is rewriting history to suit the doctrines of the Democratic Party. Has Bob Poage undertaken the job of rewriting the Bible for the same purpose...
...year rule of Cyprus in 1570-71. Greece, itself conquered by the Ottomans in 1460, did not win its independence as a modern nation until the 1820s, when it began its long agitation to reunite its scattered peoples. In 1878 that great champion of empire, Britain's Benjamin Disraeli, acquired Cyprus from Turkey in exchange for help against the Russians. Said a onetime Cyprus governor, Sir Ronald Storrs: "No sensible person will deny that the Cypriot is Greek-speaking, Greek-thinking, Greek-feeling, Greek...
...Benjamin H. Heckscher '57 of Winthrop House and Devon, Pa., and Robert Gilmor Jr. '57 of Adams House and New York City were elected captains of next year's squash and wrestling teams respectively...
...formed in 1919 to distribute the independent films of its four owners: Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, Charles Chaplin, D. W. Griffith. In early 1951 the company was losing $100,000 a week. It was so desperate that it offered a group headed by Lawyers Arthur Krim and Robert Benjamin half the company's stock, valued at $5,400,000 and full control for ten years at the nominal cost of $8,000, if the group could show a profit in any of the next three years. Within months United Artists was in the black-and that year grossed...
When the Krim-Benjamin group took over U.A. in 1951, the other half of the stock was owned in equal parts by Chaplin and Mary Pickford. Last year Chaplin sold his share to Krim-Benjamin for an undisclosed sum (TIME, March 14, 1955). Last week Mary Pickford sold her share too, and the Krim-Benjamin group became 100% owners of the company that has done more than any other single force to change the industrial pattern of Hollywood...