Word: benjamin
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Undaunted, Lindsay denounced the protest tactics as "deplorable," and said the city must decide "whether we will guide ourselves by rationality and truth or whether we shall permit ourselves to be misled by misunderstanding and fear." Liberal Democratic Congressman Benjamin Rosenthal, who represents parts of Forest Hills, joined Buckley in opposing the project, but conceded: "A thing like this makes us all act in a fashion that both the community and I are not proud of-it brings out the inherent prejudice...
...smooth out relations between himself and the Police Department, Stokes appointed as Safety Director retired General Benjamin O. Davis, the highest ranking black in the Air Force. Davis proved to be one of the few law-and-order blacks in the country, and constantly sided with the police. Six months later he resigned, charging that Stokes and his Administration had given aid and support to "enemies of law enforcement." When pressed, Davis produced a list containing the names of several black militants and black organizations. He also fingered the weekly newspaper of the black community which had committed the grievous...
...years, the Jews of Russia accepted their fate stoically-Novelist Elie Wiesel called them "the Jews of Silence"-but ever since the Arab-Israeli war of 1967 they have become increasingly vociferous. So have their supporters abroad. Last week a House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee headed by New York Democrat Benjamin S. Rosenthal opened an investigation into the problem by having the State Department present an evaluation. The Deputy Assistant Secretary for European Affairs, Richard T. Davies, appeared at the hearing with a 21-page statement. Though carefully balanced, it promptly touched off a chorus of protests that demonstrated how touchy...
...27th largest life insurance company (assets: $1.2 billion), to help rebuild the city's blighted Laurel-Clayton section. Plumley decided to erect 430 units of low-and middle-income housing and invested $11.8 million of company loan and equity money in the project. He hired Architect Benjamin Thompson of Cambridge and told him to design a complex that would be "more than just another public-housing project...
...Benjamin Kaplan, Royall Professor of Law, will act as a master of procedure at the hearing...