Word: benning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...waiting to die. . . . An other thing I want to tell you mothers: if you are not public speakers you'd better start taking lessons now. for you never know what some of these sons and daughters will do to make you famous." In behalf of one Ben M. Jones, film projectionist who fled a South Carolina prison
...several players in Saturday's game calls for some comment. Choate was the man of the hour and should be given a chance on Team A this week. Time and again he broke through interference and snagged the runner. Casey turned in one of the sweetest performances seen since Ben Ticknor guarded the pivot poet and was in on nearly every play. Hid diagnosis of the Holy Cross deception was uncanny...
Married. Benjamin Holt ("Ben") Ticknor, famed Harvard footballer (1931); and Barbara Farmer, daughter of Yale's Athletic Director Malcolm Farmer; in New Haven, Conn...
...over the City as "a more effective Dictatorship than Hitler's in Germany or Mussolini's in Italy!" Warmed up by Dave Kirkwood, the Conference passed a resolution pledging the Party to oppose any return by Britain to the gold standard. Fresh cheers broke out when fiery Ben Tillett, a leading agitator in the first and only British General strike (TIME, May 10 to 24,1926), cried with obvious reference to the City: "There is an influential section of our own financial and political leaders and our British munitions magnates who in their hearts are siding with Hitler...
...Coliseum, Omaha celebrated its autumn festival, the "Coronation of His Royal Highness King Ak-Sar-Ben XXXIX and His Gracious Consort the Queen, at the Royal Castle of Quivers." Crowned King Ak-Sar-Ben XXXIX (Nebraska backwards) was Hotelman Eugene Chase Eppley, 48-year-old bachelor. Queen was Margaret Monell Doorly...