Word: benjamins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mary Purnell, vigorous, 83-year-old "Queen" of the City of David and widow of "King" Benjamin Purnell, founder of the vegetarian, ball-playing House of David, told her bearded subjects that Adolf Hitler had somehow conveyed a personal message to her. Said Hitler: "I'm dead. Stop the war. I'm sorry...
Before the American Revolution, the colonies sent agents to England. Benjamin Franklin was one, but the rest are largely forgotten. What Dr. Lonn wanted to know was who they were, how they lived, what they did, how much they earned. These and other facts she had set herself to discover from almost undecipherable letters, records and minutes of the British Board of Trade 300 years before...
...Married. Benjamin Franklin Fairless, 54, kinetic president of U.S. Steel, son of an Ohio miner ; and Hazel Hatfield Sproul, 44, daughter of West Virginia's onetime Governor Henry Hatfield, descendant of the feuding Hatfields (v. McCoys) , mother-in-law of President Fairless' son, Navy Lieut. Elaine Fairless ; both for the second time; in Huntington, W. Va. Lieut. and Mrs. Fairless attended the bridal couple...
...fixing of exchange rates was at tacked savagely by hard-money Economist Dr. Benjamin M. Anderson, of the University of California at Los Angeles. Wrote Professor Anderson: "Fixed rates in the foreign exchanges are eminently desirable. A temperature of 98.6 in the human body is eminently desirable, but a rigging of the thermometer so that it will always record 98.6 regardless of the fluctuations in the temperature of a sick patient is a rather futile performance...
Loretta Young, who paid $8,500 down on a ten-room Hollywood house owned by Benjamin ("Bugsy") Siegel, longtime friend to bigtime gangsters, was sued by him for the balance of $85,000. She explained that the deal depended on Bugsy's eliminating all the house's "termites, fungus and dry rot." Her claim: "Siegel has refused to spend more than $250 for elimination of termites. It's going to cost a great deal more than that...