Word: benning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Johnson County, Mo., Ben Yocum, 23, went to work on Mr. & Mrs. Ben Williams' farm, confided that his real name was Ipock, got permission to take their daughter Mary Lee Williams, 21, to visit his foster parents, the Yocums. Month later when Ben and Mary returned, Mrs. Williams announced she had a surprise for them: Mary Lee was only an adopted daughter, her real name was Mary Lee Ipock and she was Ben Ipock's sister. Brother & Sister Ipock had a greater surprise for Mrs. Williams: not suspecting their relationship, they had been married a month...
Contrary to popular belief, Nathaniel Ames, and not Ben Franklin, published the best colonial almanac. A Dedham physician and inn-keeper, Ames distributed his first issue in 1725. His publication became the most popular of its kind in New England and reached the then enormous circulation of 60,000. His calendar included such bits of wit as this: "Dec. 7-10. 'Ladies take heed, Lay down your fans, And handle well, Your warming paus...
...team the backfield showed a quartet composed of Chief Boston, Bob Stuart, Ben Smith, and Vernon Struck. Stuart was throwing passes with his old abandon and looked as fit as ever. If he were able to get into the Yale game for any appreciable amount, he would be sure to furnish the spark and drive that is supposed to be the reason for the team's bogging down when they reach the pay distance...
...year from the retirement age of 65. To succeed him, Big Steel's directors last week picked 47-year-old Benjamin F. Fairless, who began as a schoolmaster, tried his hand at railroad engineering, joined Central Steel Co. in 1913, eventually became vice president. Through various mergers, Ben Fairless rose to be executive vice president of Republic Steel, left that post to become president of Myron Taylor's Amalgamated Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corp. in 1935. Following him in this berth will be 56-year-old J. L. Perry, now president of Tennessee Coal, Iron & Railroad Co., Big Steel...
Somewhat breathless from all this, newly-elected Benjamin Fairless hustled home from the directors' meeting to his suite in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria, was so agog he forgot to collect his key at the desk on the ground floor. Finding the door locked and his wife out, Ben Fairless asked a passing maid to let him in. Suspiciously she refused. So did another. "Hell!" snapped President-elect Fairless, "This is a fine pickle. Nobody knows me around here...