Word: benning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...will not take our economies out of ... the unemployed. We will take them out of the hides of the political exploiters." A relief dispute in his own State last week gave the Republican Nominee a chance for further remarks in this direction. In his Fredonia. Kans. Herald, District WPAdministrator Ben Hudson lately asserted that administrative costs of Kansas' State Emergency Relief Committee were five times as much as those of its Federal WPAdministration...
...Duke, who was permitted to rename it Duke University for $17,000,000 in cash, also gave Duke an eventual 32% of the income from his Duke Endowment, whose $53,000,000 portfolio holds not only tobacco but electric-power and basic-warfare-chemicals securities. Late Son Benjamin Newton ("Ben...
Last week was a notable one in the life of President Ben Alexander of Masonite Corp. On his desk in the wallboard company's executive offices in Chicago's Conway Building appeared a big bouquet of red roses from his wife, marking his tenth wedding anniversary. The roses also served as a remembrance for his 42nd birthday. Meantime Mr. Alexander's Masonite published its annual report for the fiscal year through August showing record profits, celebrated its tenth business birthday, announced a refinancing plan and split its stock...
...first four Folios. This engraving has always been an object of ridicule by those who hold to the theory that Bacon wrote the works accredited to Shakespeare. These Baconians claim that the picture is nothing more than a mask, a back, and two left arms. Ben Jonson, however, according to all true Shakespearians, refutes this definitely in his verse which accompanies in his verse which accompanies the engraving. Jonson says...
When the literary history of the present era is eventually written, the strange and flighty career of Upton Sinclair is likely to provide one of its most picturesque footnotes. He is as much a literary oddity and popular favorite as General Lew Wallace, who wrote Ben Hur while Governor of New Mexico, and who was distracted from his romance by the lawless exploits of Billy the Kid. Belonging to that class of writers who, unable to choose between the world of affairs and the literary life, have attempted both and succeeded in neither, Sinclair is known in political circles...