Word: benjamins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Second term Freshmen and upper-classmen not now enrolled in a field of concentration meet in Handers Theatre Saturday morning at 9 o'clock to hear Delmar Leighton '19, dean of Freshmen, George A. Smith, Jr., professor of Business Administration, and Benjamin F. Wright, professor of Government, speak on the choice of a field...
Definite commitments from four Harvard professors, who will pay their own travelling expenses, were also disclosed. F. O. Matthiessen, professor of American History and Literature, and Benjamin F. Wright, professor of Government, will be teaching their own respective specialties to English speaking students representing most of the countries on the Continent...
...Steel President Benjamin Fairless considered the problem. He was, quite understandably, unwilling to reduce prices until he knew what he would have to pay under a new wage contract. Wages are 40% of steel production costs. Would Phil Murray, president of the steelworkers' union, withdraw his wage demands if Fairless announced a price cut? Murray, afraid of weakening his bargaining position, would not commit himself. He has simply made it clear that he thinks Steel can raise wages, an argument given substance by U.S. Steel's 1946 net profit: $88.7 million. Murray and Fairless were like...
...next 24 years John Benjamin Powell came to know China, its people and their problems as few other foreigners did. His China Weekly Review became a highly respected journal of news and opinion. Long before it became the fashion, the militant little paper took sides against the invading Japanese. When they tried to silence him with bribes and threats, Powell sneered at them and lined his pressroom doors with steel. The day after Pearl Harbor, the Japs shut up his shop, and later clapped Editor Powell into filthy, ice-cold Bridgehouse Prison. Before he got out, starvation...
Among the tutors and associates who, among other things, have helped foster regular. House academic discussions in various fields are Professors Howard Mumford Jones and Perry Miller of the English Department, Professor Benjamin F. Wright, chairman of the General Education program, William E. Hocking '01, Alford Professor of Philosophy, Thomas R. Powell, Story Professor of Law, and Charles S. Burwell, Dean of the Medical School...