Word: benjamins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...offer to talk turkey came from Big Steel's President, Benjamin F. Fairless, as Western steel users prepared to meet this week in Salt Lake City to discuss the postwar fate of Western steel. In letting out the news, Fairless gave them a surprising new item to chew over. Big Steel, he said, is also ready to dicker with DPC to buy or lease the $110,000,000 steel plant at Fontana, Calif., built and operated by Shipbuilder Henry J. Kaiser...
Unrecognized patron saint of planned philanthropy is Benjamin Franklin, who in 1751 undertook to gather money for the Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia. Said Organizer Franklin, summing up what still may be the best fund-raiser creed: "I do not remember any of my . . . maneuvers . . . wherein, after thinking of it, I more easily excused myself for having made some use of cunning...
...Elected the Council's first Negro vice president (to serve with Manhattan's Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam, outstanding Methodist liberal [TIME, June 26], who was elected president, to succeed Episcopal Bishop Henry St. George Tucker). He is quiet, earnest Dr. Benjamin Elijah Mays, 49, Baptist minister and president of Atlanta's Morehouse College. A firm believer in education and patience as cures for racial discrimination, Baptist Mays is himself so tolerant that he has never once tried to proselytize his Methodist wife...
...ILIAD OF HOMER, A LINE FOR LINE TRANSLATION IN DACTYLIC HEXAMETERS-William Benjamin Smith and Walter Miller-Macmillan...
...Translators. William Benjamin Smith, professor emeritus at Tulane, left the manuscript of this translation unrevised when he died ten years ago at 84. His friend, Walter Miller, now 80 and professor emeritus at the University of Missouri, revised and finished it. An odor of honorable mustiness, of philology and old German texts, clung round the generation of U.S. classicists to which these men, with their degrees from Göttingen and Leipzig, belonged. Good translation, or even a reasonable fluency at writing English, were not among its ambitions. But Smith and Miller achieved a good translation. Their Iliad is published...