Word: benning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...election as national commander with the cry: "Stop the king-makers!" The "king-makers," they asserted, were six members who have attempted to dictate Legion policies and were thumping for Hayes. They named them as Broker Philip Collins of Chicago; John D. Ewing, publisher of the Shreveport, La. Times; Ben Doris of Oregon; William Doyle of Massachusetts; Patrick Cliff of Minnesota; Edward Neary of New York. In his speech of acceptance Commander Hayes declared: "No one will direct the policies of your national commander except the rank and file...
...Kilcullen and Clare Curtin, both big, experienced tackles, and he can fall back on Bob "Tiger" Taylor and Sid Stein, a pair of mammoth Sophomores. At guards he has veterans Ed Nichols and Jimmy DeAngelis, both speedy, a distinct advantage in the Eli attack. Webb Davis, Dick Crampton, and Ben Grosscup leave the Eli coach well equipped with guard material. At center there is Vic Malin, 240-pound Senior, who has seen service all through college, and he is backed up by Dick Barr, pivot on last year's yearlings...
...Died. Horace Brisbin Liveright, 46, Manhattan publisher and stage producer; of pneumonia; in Manhattan. A onetime bond salesman, he, with Albert Boni, formed Boni & Liveright, Inc., which later became Liveright Inc., now bankrupt. Some of his authors: Eugene O'Neill, Theodore Dreiser, Sherwood Anderson, : Emil Ludwig, Robinson Jeffers, Ben ; Hecht, Hendrik Van Loon. Died. Michael Joseph ("Turkey Mike") Donlin, 57, actor, oldtime baseballer; of heart disease; in Los Angeles. He was the strutting, clowning, umpire-baiting captain of the New York Giants team which, with Christy Mathewson, "Iron Man Joe" McGinnity and Roger Bresnahan shut out Philadelphia four times...
...center the leading candidates seem to be Francis Crane and Brad Simmons. Crane is the more experienced of the two, while Simmons is the same powerful, ranging type of center as Ben Ticknor and Roger Hallowell, Harvard's most successful centers of recent years...
...Protestant celebration commemorating Martin Luther. Pollux was amused to recollect the good Bishop's fund-raising slogan when building the Cathedral: "A House of prayer for all people." The invisible amendment which Pollux missed seems to have read: "Except for non-Episcopalians and all those bearing the name Judge Ben Lindsey...