Word: benning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rated equal to its hardest test on this year's schedule, Harvard will clash with the champion McGill sextet at the Garden tonight at 8:30 O'clock. Dick Clafflin, Ben Hallowell, and John Callaway are three veterans who will return to action, taking the places of Thornty Brown, Al Dewey, and Ed Cutter...
...second line will find George Ford at center, Louis Carr at left wing, and the recovered Ben Hallowell at right. John Callaway might see action at Hallowell's position if the latter's throat injury persists. It is likely, however, that Callaway will john Mechem in flanking George Roberts on the third line...
Flavius Josephus, or Joseph ben Matthias, as his fellow-Jews called him, was a queer sort of hero. Feuchtwanger's first volume told how Josephus, after fighting the Romans like an unexceptionable patriot, turned his cloak into a toga to save what he might from the wreck of Judea. Thereafter he never completely got back his countrymen's confidence, never altogether won the Romans' respect. Josephus himself was never quite sure how he stood with himself. When his hated master, the Emperor Vespasian, died and his friend Titus came to the throne, Josephus' wave curled...
...publicity. The Press, especially in the U. S., was promptly flooded with news of the prodigious feats of organization, diplomacy and greathearted endurance by which a modest U. S. engineer was keeping an entire nation alive. When Mr. Hoover went home to be U. S. Food Administrator, Ben Allen went with him. Their joint efforts added a new word, "Hooverize," to the national vocabulary, made Mr. Hoover and his food edicts an intimate part of the daily life of every man, woman & child in the land. By 1920 Mr. Hoover bulked large enough in the public mind to be discussed...
...Ben Allen did not share in his hero's glory as Secretary of Commerce or in the greater glory yet to come. What happened to the Hoover-Allen association has long been a subject of speculation among political observers. There were rumors of a blowup, a serious breach. These stories are now hotly denied by Ben Allen, and his friends testify that the only resentment he ever displayed in the years of separation was against those who he felt had shouldered him out of his place at Mr. Hoover's writing elbow. Ben Allen declares that he returned...