Word: benjamin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rabbi Benjamin Schultz of New York spoke first, prefacing his remarks by commenting, "I got so excited about coming here that I got a fever, so I have a cold and can't talk so well. But you people aren't cold at all, so I don't have anything to worry about...
...only Negro to become a general officer in the U.S. Army followed in his father's bootsteps. West Pointer (36) Benjamin Oliver Davis Jr., director of Operations and Training for the Far East Air Force, was made the first Negro general of the Air Force, 14 years after General Davis Sr. had made the grade. Said his proud father, now 77 and retired: "It took me 41 years to make it. My son took 18. That's as it should be. If my boy can't do better than I did, I'd feel that...
...Caesars the things that are God's. Last week the spiritual combat zone was East Germany, where Protestant and Roman Catholic clergymen joined in protesting a Soviet-style "family law." Due for enactment by the East zone legislature, the law mirrors the macabre woman who fashioned it, Hilde Benjamin, 52, known as "Red Hilde," "Hanging Hilde," and "the Red Guillotine...
Republican prospects in Wyoming, which looked bright after the suicide of Democratic Senator Lester C. Hunt (TIME. June 28), seem to have faded away like the mountain summer. G.O.P. Congressman William Henry Harrison, grandson and great-great-grandson of Presidents Benjamin and William Henry Harrison, won the Republican nomination, but only after a bitter primary fight with former G.O.P. State Chairman Ewing T. Kerr. Wyoming's tourist business is down about 15% and retail business is off about 10%. A drought has grown worse, and Democratic Candidate Joseph O'Mahoney, a veteran of 10 years in the Senate...
...years, Shanghai's China Weekly Review was a respected, independent English-language magazine. When Editor-Owner John Benjamin Powell died in 1947 (as a result of Japanese imprisonment and torture during World War II), his son John William Powell took over. Young Powell had different ideas, most of them Communist. He changed the Review into a monthly, converted it into a Communist mouthpiece, until it was forced to shut down more than a year ago because of currency regulations and shrinking circulation (TIME...