Word: benjamins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mental care? Benjamin Joy, chairman of the board of trustees for Massachusetts Training Schools, explained that he had been refused permission to hire psychiatrists, though one out of five inmates were mentally defective...
...present program grew out of the University report on "General Education in a Free Society," which was published in 1945. The first General Education courses were given in the fall of 1946, under the direction of Benjamin F. Wright, professor of Government and chairman of the Committee on General Education...
...newcomers, Benjamin Franklin Stapleton, 73, seems one of the most ineffectual old men in the rambling, shady-city of Denver. He dreads change. He falls asleep at public meetings, mumbles in monosyllables and exudes a little less social warmth than Marley's ghost. He does not smoke or drink and has never been known to swear. Beyond these traits the other fact for newcomers to learn is that Ben Stapleton is Denver's mayor...
Died. John Benjamin Powell, 60, veteran newsman, prewar editor & publisher of the China Weekly Review and managing director of the China Press; of a heart attack, just after making a speech warning the U.S. against a resurgent Asia; in Washington. After Pearl Harbor, the Japanese threw Editor Powell into a heatless Shanghai cell, where he developed gangrene and beriberi, lost 70 of his 160 pounds, eventually lost parts of both feet...
...journalists who write about education, the name of Dr. Benjamin Fine leads all the rest. He likes to say: "I follow the teachers as some people follow the ponies." For ten years he has covered education for the New York Times, traveled thousands of miles, attended countless conventions, visited almost every U.S. college, bombarded students, teachers and officials with questionnaires about everything from coeds to cyclotrons...