Word: benning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Commissioner of Accounts, with a roving assignment to snoop into the finances of all city departments, he appointed a onetime Socialist-editor of The Nation, Paul Blanshard, who has lately distinguished himself as director of a civic committee. As helper he will have a 31-year-old lawyer, Irving Ben Cooper, who became one of Samuel Seabury's favorite aids because he unearthed the sleazy Tammany stool pigeon whose trick was to make honest women look like prostitutes...
...unusually luxurious limousine standing in front of Manhattan's luxurious Sherry-Xetherland Hotel fortnight ago attracted the attention of a smart New York Sun reporter. The silver radiator cap, big as a baby's head, was a replica of Ben Hur's chariot. Silver trimmings on the fenders and silver door handles led Newshawk Edmund De Long to peep into the car's interior. Upholstery was of soft green Morocco leather. "On the inside of the doors." De Long wrote in the Sun, "and across the partition separating the chauffeur's compartment is a gold...
...BEN H. PETTY Lafayette...
...presentation of Ben Jonson's comedy, "Bartholomew Fair," will constitute the Eliot House program, to be staged on Wednesday evening. This performance, a three-act version of the original, has been under the direction of Dr. Theodore Spencer, instructor in English, and Professor Francis O. Matthiessen. The play will be presented in the House dining hall after the regular House dinner, to be held at 6.30 o'clock...
...quickly provided "Poor Devil's" identity. Again he was authentically Harry Stockton Boon, auditor for the Department of Agriculture in whose service he has spent 16 years. He left Washington seven weeks ago. Last week he was on his way to San Diego to visit his brother. Captain Ben Boon of the U. S. Army...