Word: benjamin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Benjamin Franklin is in the news for two reasons this weekend. As the father of 13 acknowledged illegitimate children, he is clearly the spokesman for one rather radical position in the current debate on sexual practices among the nation's youth...
...first Dillingham in the islands was Walter's father-Benjamin Franklin Dillingham, first officer on a clipper ship out of San Francisco. In Honolulu on shore leave in 1865, he fell off a horse, broke his leg, and settled down for life. Benjamin bought a hardware store, married a missionary's daughter, had four children. In 1888 the ambitious ex-sailor got a royal franchise from King Kalakaua to build a narrow-gauge railroad to haul sugar cane from inland Oahu down to the sea. Skeptics called it "Dillingham's Folly." But it was a huge success...
...Shoestring. A decade later, Benjamin tried another railroad on the big island of Hawaii. This one was indeed a folly, wound up putting the Dillinghams $4,000,000 in debt-a bigger deficit than the entire Territory of Hawaii had at the time. Walter was called home from Harvard in 1900 to help straighten out the mess, and when Benjamin's health failed, he took over the business...
...target was School Superintendent Benjamin C. Willis, 61, who has long resisted Negro pressure, exerted through the board of education, to take drastic measures to mitigate segregation. Early in October, protesting that the board was moving into his area of authority, he resigned...
...University Health Services plans to launch a campaign to warn students of the dangers of smoking, Dr. Benjamin G. Ferris '40, director of Environmental Health and Safety, said yesterday...