Word: benning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First foreigner from the capital to see the advance of Italy's troops on Addis Ababa was United Pressman Ben Ames. Slashed by a sword in the native riots fortnight ago, he and a companion were able to slip out of town before dawn in a mud-bespattered truck. Just outside the city gates a scouting plane came rocketing down from the sky. Frantically they waved white towels and a large U. S. flag, were signaled on by a wave of the aviator's hand. Thirty miles farther on roaring motorcycles and staff cars popped...
...Hebraic incantations of Elohim and Adonai a sacred promise was made in Detroit one night last week. The Jew Sender ben Henie swore before Jehovah that, if his unborn child should be a girl, he would marry her to the son of his faithful neighbor Nissen. But Nissen died leaving his son poor while Sender grew rich and increasingly greedy. The holy promise was broken, just as it was in Sholom Ansky's mystical drama. This time The Dybbuk was having its U. S. premiere as an opera, which has had considerable success during the past two years...
...shade of a murdered Indian returns to lift tables, answer questions by raps. Ben Sexton, a mean skeptic, tries to hold the spirit down by wrestling the table. He gets laid out good & proper...
More fortunate, in that they at least appeared in action last week, were Rookies Ben Geraghty of the Brooklyn Dodgers, who was a college basketballer as recently as February, and Mike Kreevich of the White Sox, whose expert hitting against St. Louis helped put his team at the League...
Russ Allen, Bob Barkin, Jim Gaffney, Charley Kessler, Henry Russell, and Ben Smith, all linemen and Chief Boston, Phil Brooks, Rick Hedblom. Howie Lewenstein, and Verne Struck backs, all had perfect attendance reports...