Word: benning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...skit with Artist Russell Patterson's puppets, including the leering little gentleman from the covers of Esquire, vying with Comedian Ben Blue for the attentions of two skirted and rouged puppets...
Back in San Francisco after frolicking at the famed annual outdoor tycoon bust of San Francisco's Bohemian Club. John P, Bickell, mining speculator and director of the Canadian Bank of Commerce and Bernard E. ("Sell 'Em Ben") Smith, celebrated Wall Street bear, backer of the Merrill-Lambie Coronation flight, were walking down Post Street toward Union Square. Said Speculator Smith: "I feel like taking a trip." Replied Banker Bickell: "That's a great idea. I'll go anywhere you want ." At that moment they were opposite the St. Francis Hotel which houses the offices...
...BEN HOLMES...
...General Time Instruments Corp. (bet! Thomas, Big Ben, Westclox) reported ,000 as against $653,000 in the first half...
...both contenders were in favor of the Court Bill, and to ask the President to accept Pat Harrison was not to ask him to take an enemy as his lieutenant. Therefore Pat Harrison's friends had burned with indignation when the President's "message to A'ben" (see p. n) emphasized Alben Barkley's place as "acting leader." Before they left Washington the President had called Pat Harrison to the White House to make amends, to assure him that he was neutral in the contest, absolutely neutral. But this did not allay the tense feeling...