Word: benjamin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Benjamin Karpman took one extreme position. His prediction: in 50 years...
Paved with Good Intentions. In Carsonville, Mich., enraged at the muddy road by his house, Benjamin Caswell stormed down to the county garage, started to drive away with the road grader but was stopped by the police...
Tanned and relaxed from a week in Florida and Jamaica, Jack Kennedy buoyantly strode into a rally at the Stonewall Jackson Hotel in Clarksburg, W. Va. Cheers from 300 Democrats rang out so loudly that the county Democratic chairman, Benjamin Stout, tumbled right off his perch of official neutrality. Carried away by the excitement, he introduced Kennedy as "a man who probably will be the next President...
...Benjamin Disraeli: Sybil
...hell," slapped on a big import tax. Louis XIII of France and Czar Michael I decreed penalties for smoking, ranging from death to castration, and Pope Urban VIII threatened excommunication for anyone found smoking in church or on church premises. A signer of the Declaration of Independence, Dr. Benjamin Rush, attacked tobacco on grounds of health ?one of a host of doctors who through the years have attributed to the plant 300 diseases ranging from impotence to bad eyesight. Long before cancer became a cry, cigarettes were known as "coffin nails." Henry Ford and Thomas Edison vowed that they...