Word: benjamins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From Fort Riley, Kans. to Tuskegee's new field was transferred a crack Negro line officer, one of two in the Army-28-year-old Captain Benjamin O. Davis Jr. He is the son of the only Negro general officer in the Army, and the fourth of his race to graduate from West Point since it was founded...
Groton to Havana. Benjamin Sumner Welles was born in New York City on Oct. 14, 1892, the son of Benjamin and Frances Swan Welles. The senior Welles was something more than well-to-do. There is a legend (apocryphal) about the infant Sumner: that as a child at play, he wore white gloves...
...this privilege: Dr. Bela Schick, inventor of the Schick test for diphtheria immunity (not to be confused with Jacob Schick, inventor of the Schick razor); Nobelman George Hoyt Whipple, co-discoverer of the liver treatment for anemia; Dr. Manfred Sakel, originator of the insulin shock treatment for schizophrenia; Dr. Benjamin Philp Watson, head of Columbia's Sloane Hospital for Women...
Thoughtfulness. On maneuvers in the Tennessee war games, Lieut. Benjamin Gutow got a jigsaw letter from his wife...
Among the Fund's directors were William Z. Foster (then secretly a Communist), Benjamin Gitlow (then a Communist tycoon ), Elizabeth Gurley Flynn (I.W.W.), the Reverend Harry Ward (Union Theological Seminary), Robert Morss Lovett (now Government secretary of the Virgin Islands). Though the Garland Fund threw money right & left (mostly left), instead of being depleted, it grew. (It held First National Bank of the City of New York stock during the '20s.) Sixteen years after Charles Garland decided to give away his million, the Fund was close to $2,500,000. Some of this paper profit was wiped...