Word: benjamins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Benjamin Franklin, in Historical Review of Pennsylvania...
...insolvent Chicago & Eastern Illinois almost became the first Class I railroad to leave court jurisdiction under Section 77 of the Bankruptcy Act and return to private control. Security holders all agreed informally on a plan; yet the plan fell through. Last week, under a different plan, Trustee Benjamin Wham turned the title over to President Charles O'Neal, and C. & E. I. left the courts at last. Although nearly four years had elapsed, it was still the first Class I railroad...
...little premature to shut down on debate? Fascism, it is true, abhors and fears free discussion, but democracy thrives on it. The right of free speech should be sacred, not just a privilege which may be revoked if it is inconvenient or embarrassing. The maxim which Roosevelt took from Benjamin Franklin to illustrate the futility of a dictated peace is a sword which cuts both ways: "Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety...
...library of some 27,000 books-about-books. guarded by busts of Ben Franklin and other great printers, is open to the public. At monthly meetings members shoptalk of first editions and Renaissance engravings, entertain each other with addresses on "Pope as a Letter Writer," "Benjamin Franklin, Traveller," "The Terrible Gustave Dore." Members include Moneymen J. Pierpont Morgan, Owen D. Young, Baron Victor Rothschild, Typographers Frederic Goudy, Bruce Rogers, Publishers Charles Scribner, Arthur Hays Sulzberger (New York Times), Physician Logan Clendening, Actor Robert Montgomery, President Franklin D. Roosevelt (honorary...
Most Americans learned in school that during the dark winter at Valley Forge, Washington was the near-victim of a cabal cooked up by Irish Expatriate and French General Thomas Conway, by Dr. Benjamin Rush, by the Adams cousins. Sam & John. Purpose of the plot was to replace Washington by General Horatio Gates. Now Historian Knollenberg reviews the documents to conclude that no such cabal ever existed, that the long-lived rumor was due in part to Washington's touchiness, dictatorial arrogance, "disingenuousness," skill at passing the buck for his own mistakes. In part it was due to wild...