Word: benjamins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plane with him stepped chubby Braintruster Benjamin V. Cohen, the Embassy's new legal adviser, and Chemist James Bryant Conant, President of Harvard, in England on a special mission (to study scientific war methods...
Well does the C. L. I. D. know that to many a churchman its sponsorship of Malvern would, thanks to its left-wing label, be more of a hindrance than a help. Led by its lean, kinetic executive secretary, the Rev. William Benjamin Spofford, it cheerfully voted to turn over its findings to the more official joint commission set up last October by the Episcopal General Convention and headed by liberal, well-liked Bishop William Scarlett of Missouri...
...Gunners," by Benjamin McCartney, is a sympathetic psychological study of what waiting in an anti-aircraft gun-pit does to men's nerves. Interest is heightened by the fact that the men are Germans and the enemy are English--an aspect of the war of nerves little talked of now. If some of the reactions seem a little stock and some of the psychology a little doubtful, nonetheless a spirit of tension is preserved throughout...
Married. Virginia Hand ("Jinx") Callaway, 19, only daughter of Textile Tycoon Cason Callaway, good friend of fellow Warm Springs Enthusiast Franklin Delano Roosevelt; and Lieut. Benjamin Mart Bailey Jr., 24, football and track star on 1939 West Point teams; in La Grange...
Although he left for Europe considerably before Winant, President Conant arrived at Lisbon at the same time; Conant traveled to Portugal by beat, whereas Winant flew by clipper. Both men, together with Benjamin Cohon, New Deal brain-truster, flew to Bristol, England, on Friday...