Word: benjamins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Labor Lost. In Chicago, Benjamin Karns lugged a door into court to prove that he had not broken it down 'to beat his exwife, was jailed when the judge discovered a loose panel...
...ailing William Z. Foster, a radical for almost 50 years, thrice the C.P.'s presidential candidate, now its chairman; shrewd, greying Eugene Dennis, C.P. general secretary, already on bond awaiting appeal of his one-year sentence for contempt of Congress (TIME, July 7, 1947); tall, Harvard-trained Benjamin J. Davis, New York City's only Negro (and only Communist) councilman; bald John Williamson, the party's labor secretary, out on bail pending a deportation hearing (TIME, Feb. 23) ; stocky Jack Stachel, little known outside the party but one of its veteran propagandists, also tapped for deportation; Mississippi...
...Davis was summoned to the White House. On the steps leading to the White House rose garden, he listened quietly to a complimentary speech from Harry Truman, received a testimonial scroll signed by the President and Davis' Army comrades. After 50 years in the Army, Brigadier General Benjamin O. Davis, 71, had retired. Among the guests was Lieut. Colonel Benjamin O. Davis Jr., commander of the 332nd Fighter Wing, the regular Air Force's ranking Negro officer...
When the meeting broke up, Taft rushed to a press conference at the Benjamin Franklin hotel. His stride was determined ; his face bore a look of hope. In confident tones he said: "The Dewey blitz has been stopped...
...Benjamin Britten's Peter Grimes...