Word: benjamin
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...very few votes. Ulysses Grant beat her out. Then there is Washington, D.C.'s Belva Ann Bennett Lockwood, the first woman lawyer ever to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court. She ran in 1884 and again in 1888 on the Equal Rights ticket-but, as the victories of Benjamin Harrison and Grover Cleveland proved, the nation wasn't ready for her either...
McCann questioned why no hue and cry was raised when the legislature authorized the construction 20 months ago. The issue lay dormant until last fall. At a meeting of Organization Ten, a Cambridge civic group, Benjamin Fink, chief engineer of the MDC, assured the 400 members present that there was nothing to worry about. After Fink spoke, Bernays--a new resident of the city and the country's leading public relations man--denounced the MDC representative as "a stooge" and urged an aggressive attack to combat the building of the underpasses. At this meeting were laid the seeds...
...Both Benjamin I. Schwarts '38, professor of History and Government, and Stanley H. Hoffmann, professor of Government and Research Associate in the Center for International Affairs, felt that France's move should not be a cause for great alarm in America...
Woodrow Wilson Benjamin Franklin...
...Freudian days, Author Valentine points out, fathers were often considerably freer and franker with their advice than they are today. He includes Benjamin Franklin's famed advice in 1745, listing the advantages of an elderly mistress: "The pleasure of corporal enjoyment with an old woman is at least equal and frequently superior, every knack being by practice capable of improvement." The Earl of Pembroke, anxious to see his son restore the family fortunes by settling into a good marriage instead of a military career, writes with Georgian bluntness: "I wish you would draw, not your sword, but your precious...