Word: benjamin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tragic Mistake." Most prominent of the Times witnesses was Benjamin Fine, 50, education editor since 1941 and recipient of seven honorary degrees. Fine admitted to the "tragic mistake" of party membership for about a year in 1935-36 while he was a graduate student at Columbia University's Teachers College. He volunteered that his advice to young people today would be to "keep away from anyone who talks the Communist line to you on the campus." Fine's appearance as a witness was the only clue to why the subcommittee two days earlier had called his brother, David...
Died. Dorothy Park Benjamin Caruso, 62, U.S.-born widow of great Tenor Enrico Caruso, author of Enrico Caruso, His Life and Death; of cancer; in Baltimore...
...Benjamin Shwadran, editor of the scholarly magazine Middle Eastern Affairs, offers the best documented analysis to date of how the government's 50-50 share of oil profits has been lavished on a Saudi Arabian Nights...
...fine afternoon in December 1872, the brigantine Mary Celeste was picked up heading westward in the South Atlantic under jib and fore-topsail, her galley table set for dinner, and not one soul aboard. Why her master, Captain Benjamin Briggs, his wife, his crew and his passengers-ten in all-should have deserted their ship in midocean is still the sea's most taunting mystery...
There were mass meetings among Erath's citizens, almost all of them parishioners of Our Lady of Lourdes Roman Catholic Church. A group went to complain to Bishop Jules Benjamin Jeanmard of Lafayette, La. Negro children were warned to stay away from catechism classes. Finally Father Labbe suspended the classes altogether...