Word: benjamin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...printed a letter without comment that a Benjamin Disraeli, 19th century Britain had a Jew as Prime Minister. Disraeli, though born to Jewish parents, was baptized at the age of 13 and remained for the rest of his life a faithful member of the Church of England...
...point of who is going to do the authorizing-who this source will be. We have had no great confidence in the voices of authority so far, except for the President himself." Did the press really need any further instruction on its responsibility to the national interest? Said Benjamin M. McKelway, Associated Press president and editor of the Washington Star: "I know of no responsible newspaper which would print material damaging to the interests of the country. I think that the job of protecting security is one that lies with the Government by policing its own sources of information...
...essay on "The Late Benjamin Franklin" there occurs the following reminiscence: "When I was a child I had to boil soap, notwithstanding my father was wealthy, and I had to get up early and study geometry at breakfast, and peddle my own poetry and do everything just as Franklin did, in the solemn hope that I would be a Franklin some day. And here...
Somehow Miss Hellman's tone was anything but bitter, and frequent smiles punctuated her narrative. She concluded by reading a scene from Autumn Garden, her "most painful failure," but stressed a speech in which Benjamin Briggs realizes that a man is nothing more or less than what he accomplishes
...grey dawn of last fall's defeat, the Republican Party wrung its hands in anguished awareness of the fact that Jack Kennedy's 112,803-vote margin over Dick Nixon was the narrowest since the 1888 presidential race between Benjamin Harrison and Grover Cleveland. Last week, turning from anguish to analysis, the Republican National Committee issued a statistic-studded report on the 1960 voting trends. Items...