Word: benjamins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Johnston, who took over the army Beauregard left. "Small, soldierly and greying, with a certain gamecock jauntiness," Johnston was already smoldering with rage at Jefferson Davis over being placed fourth in a list of full generals. Ceremonious, bad-tempered notes passed back & forth. The Secretary of War, Judah P. Benjamin, maddened Johnston by going over his head in military matters and out-arguing him afterward. At one sore point, Johnston beseeched Benjamin to help "create the belief in the army that I am its commander...
Policy Maker. As his chief attorney, Jimmy Byrnes brought back to a dominant role in Washington a man whose words and ideas had once spelled magic-Benjamin Victor Cohen, the idealistic, philosophical half of the once super-active, super-powerful team of White House favorites, Corcoran & Cohen...
Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek sent a check for $10,000 to Jap-tortured James Benjamin Powell, editor (until Pearl Harbor) of the China Weekly Review. His feet mutilated as a result of his mistreatment, the once-husky editor has been abed since he reached the U.S. in August. Into a fund originally intended simply to pay Powell's hospital expenses have already gone: $7,000 from the National Press Club; $3,000 from Chinese newsmen in China; $1,700 from the Overseas Press Club in Manhattan; more besides...
...life raft. Four were children: Carol and Richard Shaw, whose mother and sister were drowned and whose father had vanished, and Mary and Robert Bell, whose missionary mother was rescued with them. Also dragged out of the sea was the torpedoed merchantman's skipper, 86-year-old Benjamin Bogdan of Brooklyn. Crowded on the raft, the 18 floated on the vast ellipse of the Caribbean. The sun beat down...
...real life the late Clarence Day Sr., crusty Wall Street broker of the horsecar days, son of the New York Sun's Founder Benjamin...