Word: benning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from peddling spoiled pineapples to slum dwellers on Manhattan's lower East Side. Then he turned to onions, at one time was making about $175,000 a year as active partner in Dingfelder & Balish, Manhattan onion and potato jobbing firm. Claiming he was U. S. "Onion King," Ben Balish last year bought out his partner, quiet, wealthy Carl I. Dingfelder (TIME, Oct. 18). Last fortnight, the 42-year-old Onion King declared himself broke, asked permission to reorganize Benjamin Balish Co., Inc. under Section 776 of the Federal Bankruptcy...
...interest, had plunged too heavily on several bad deals since 1929. In filing for bankruptcy, the Onion King listed liabilities of $150,970, assets of $414,576. Among the latter were $160,000 representing goodwill and value of the firm's brand, $42,000 listed as "advance to Ben Balish...
...modest size of this kitty, said Mr. Welles, was proof that the new Division "is not a propaganda agency." Further proof was the State Department's choice of a Cultural Relations chief: Dr. Ben Mark Cherrington of the University of Denver. A onetime University of California football coach whose size (6 ft., 200 Ib.) is calculated to impress Latin Americans, white-mopped, genial Dr. Cherrington, 52, is no doctrinaire. Twelve years ago when Capitalist James Henry Causey, his conscience stricken by the violent Denver tramway strike of 1920, undertook to finance a Foundation for the Advancement of Social Sciences...
...described as having gathered news "from London, where television has failed dismally." Some member of your team has surely betrayed you here. Any of the many thousands of people, who watched on the television screen Bois Roussel make his winning dash in the Derby, or Eddie Phillips knocking out Ben Foord in the ninth round, or Donald Budge playing at Wimbledon, could have told him better. Television in England has its own difficulties to overcome; but it is now providing a daily service of excellent quality to many thousands of viewers. It is a travesty of the facts to describe...
...When hulking, hard-drinking Stephen G. Simmons of what is now Wayne, Mich, was hanged in Detroit in 1830 for beating to death his invalid wife, Hangman Ben Woodworth made such a public spectacle of the affair that public aversion was aroused. Hanging Indians was one thing, hanging whites another. Eight years later, just across the border, Canada hanged a man subsequently proved innocent. Eight years after that, Michigan startled the world by declaring against capital punishment except for traitors...