Word: benning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...BEN S. BAER...
...against Sunday movies. Last week the session came to an unexpected climax as legislators stirred drowsily in their seats in the Kansas senate chamber, waiting the noon recess. One Edgar Bennett, State Senator, rose, called up a resolution petitioning Congress to cut off Federal road aid. Yards away, one Ben Hegler protested, picked up the nearest object at hand, let fly with the eye and arm of a veteran baseballer. His colleague, Senator Bennett, ducked, startled; in the very centre of his bald head splashed vehemently a wet sponge...
...Soon Ben Tillett, a more moderate M. P., spoke for the Labor party: "We deeply regret the demonstration against the Prime Minister at Cwm. . . . Nothing but the stark tragedy of death could have brought forward in Mr. Baldwin's presence the brutal facts of class war. . . . However much this outburst of personal resentment must be deplored, the miners righteously resent the callowness and oppression they have suffered and are suffering...
This advertisement states: "Judge Ben B. Lindsey will soon introduce into the Denver legislature a bill to provide for a new form of marriage...
...even this sufficed. Last week the tabloids were scenting still more pornography afar. The Hearst Mirror, which had referred to Browning as "Bozo Bunny," cried last week: "BOZO KING BEN NEXT! . . . Within a few weeks King Ben* will be tried . . . accused of ruining many young girls . . . more sensational than the Browning case...