Word: benjamins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...haired, blue-eyed Lieut. Colonel Lewis Elaine Hershey. A descendant of antimilitarist Mennonites who migrated to Pennsylvania in 1709, Lieut. Colonel Hershey has specialized on Army conscription plans since 1926. His technical superior on the Joint Army and Navy Selective Service Committee is the Navy's Lieut. Commander Benjamin Stacey Killmaster. But the Navy has little need of conscripts, will leave the job of running the first peacetime U. S. draft largely to Lewis Hershey. By law, either a civilian or a military man may have the $10,000-a-year post of Draft Administrator. The Army hopes that...
...thirteen Varsity members are: Benjamin A. Barnes '41, William Edgar, Jr. '41, George H. Hanford '41, Captain David O. Ives '41, Henry R. Murphy '42, Morton Myerson '42, Arthur G. Neff, Jr. '42, Roger B. Oresman '41, John G. Penson '42, Daniel S. Porr '42, Ernest C. Staber '42, Llewellyn Vorley '41, and Joseph P. Willetts...
...twelve years he worked at union organizing, quit to go into the teaming business for himself, sold out, weaved in & out of union work with occasional side ventures such as running a nightclub, working in three Chicago laundries. Three years ago a lawyer named Benjamin E. Cohen, attorney for a bankrupt Chicago laundry workers' union, asked Donovan why he didn't organize the city's 18,000 laundry workers. Bill went back to his first love with such vigor that within a few months his local (No. 46) had a signed contract with the 137 members...
...Benjamin Franklin thus introduced the heart of his famed Proposals Relating to the Education of Youth in Pennsylvania (1749), which led toward the supplanting of Colonial Latin grammar schools by academies. Franklin proposed that youths be taught less Latin, more handwriting, reading, geography, gardening, history of commerce-and he prophetically added: "And this, with the accounts in other history of the prodigious force and effect of engines and machines used in war, will naturally introduce a desire to be instructed in mechanics...
...regular Army there are five Negro officers. Three of them are chaplains, two combat officers. One of the combat soldiers is the commanding officer of Harlem's 369th: blocky, tea-colored Colonel Benjamin Oliver Davis, who came up from the ranks in 1901, has spent a large part of his service on such details as military attaché to Liberia, professor of military science and tactics at Negro colleges. The other is his son, Lieutenant B.O. Davis Jr., who was graduated from West Point in 1936, the fourth of his race to make the grade at the Army school...