Word: benjamin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Negro alderman. He wore $200 suits, and his friends called him "Duke." He held real estate valued at more than $100,000. He had just leased a shiny new political headquarters, with autographed photos of people like John F. Kennedy on the wall. That was how it was with Benjamin F. Lewis, 53. Everything was going his way. Last week he was re-elected as alderman by a pretty decisive margin-12,189 to 888. It almost seemed as though Ben Lewis had not an enemy in the world...
...That jet came in so low I could see the pilot," recalls Benjamin Washington...
...trip to Philadelphia, Postmaster General J. Edward Day offered some comments on an earlier Postmaster named Benjamin Franklin. Not a very good postman was Ben, said Day, with more humor than accuracy. Day, in effect, accused Franklin of nepotism (six relatives on the payroll), unfair business practices (plotting to bar the mails to a rival publisher), and, as a final shaft, "after landing this plum he left for England and stayed 18 years." Philadelphia's Poor Richard Club was not amused. "Franklin may have had some human failings," said a spokesman, ''but at least he was able...
After four years in Europe on three different fellowships, the young American composer Benjamin Lees was fast approaching the day when he would become a public trust. He labored quietly over his compositions, as first Guggenheim, then Copley, then Fulbright supported him. He wrote a symphony and some chamber music, but the peak of his abstraction came in 1958, when he spent eight months writing a violin concerto. Lacking a virtuoso to play it, he stuffed it away in a steamer trunk...
...Health Services are checking washing procedures and the temperature of the water in the dish-washing machines of the Houses to determine the source of the contamination, according to Dr. Benjamin G. Ferris, director of the Environmental Health and Safety Department...