Word: benning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...else in the world. Therefore Manhattan is the world's onion capital. There in a slick red and white office with a deep onion aroma, at 40 Harrison St., works sleek, well-fed Benjamin Balish, 41, who bears the proud title of U. S. "Onion King." Last week Ben Balish, after years of distinguished partnerships, completed arrangements for going into business solely for himself...
...Ben Balish's first partner was a truant officer. A poverty-stricken boy from Manhattan's East Side, Ben at the age of ten worked up a thriving trade in spoiled pineapples which he bought in bulk at extremely cheap prices (sometimes $5 for a shipload) and sold by pushcart along the docks. By the time he was 13 he had $5,300, spent it all buying his parents a home. Then he noticed that Jewish onion buyers were having a horrid time in the onion market on Pier 17. Onion salesmen were mostly boisterous Irishmen who loved...
Next Balish partner was Abraham Rosenblum, "Onion King" in 1918 when young Ben went to work for him. Three years later, having saved $35,000, Onionman Balish joined forces with a rich 50-year-old produce jobber named Carl I. Dingfelder. Dingfelder put up most of the money, Balish the onion experience, and by 1923 Dingfelder & Balish were tops in onion jobbing...
...Detroit, a policeman halted a car that had been careening down the street, arrested bloody Ben Ryser and irate wife. Said Mr. Ryser in court: "I tried to get her to leave a beer garden. I had to coax her away with a bottle of whiskey. She fell asleep in the car, but woke up near home and asked for a drink. ... I was trying to get home but I was relieved when the police came alongside. She had picked up a piece of glass and was stabbing at me with...
...Choato Winchendon Tyng, William W. 18 160 5.9 Kent Jamaica Plain Witmer, William B. 19 170 5.9 So. Pasadena High Pasadena, Calif. CENTERS Burnham, Amory E. 19 155 5.10 Groton Bolton Dietz, Sheldon 17 185 6.2 Boston Latin Brookline Duff, Levi B. IV 18 155 5.10 Ben Avon High Ban Avon, Pa. Foster, Walter H. Jr. 17 165 5.11 Belmont Hill Belmont Grover, Thomas 19 165 5.9 Roxbury Latin Canton Harder, Lewis B. 19 186 6.1 St. Mark's New York City Holt, Brantley Jr. 18 175 6. Ellensburg High Ellensburg, Wash. Lee, Herbert J. 19 155 5.10 Storn King...