Word: bensons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only speeded up collections. Mrs. Marie Fuller, grandmotherly operator of a Canton beauty parlor, had been, a sort of silent partner in the conspiracy. She began operating more openly, and at the same time the investors began getting letters, telegrams and telephone calls from someone who announced himself as "Benson Ford...
...Benson" was so gratifyingly folksy and approachable, that the heart of the farmers warmed to him immediately. At one point "Benson" wrote to the investors asking them for $2,000-supposedly to be used as a political bribe. "Kids," his letter began, "this [man] says he will lay off for the sum of $2,000, so I know it is lots of guts to ask you, but. . ." The money was raised. At another point "Benson" asked a 53-year-old Canton plumber to get his blood tested. "Grandmother is sick," said Benson over the telephone, "and William and I have...
Call to Arms. In Chicago, Hobo Ben Benson, after announcing that the Hobo Fellowship Union of America was urging all members to "help America once more to fight aggressors," explained: "You can't be a hobo in Russia...
Allen, Samuel Marston '51, Barrett, Theodore Boutelle '51, Benson, Frank Weston, 2d '49, Chadwick, William John '51 (Captain), Flagg, Washington Allston, Jr. '52, House, Theodore Grant '52, Marston, Byrne Richard '51, Monslage, Robert Pearce '51, Morgan, John Casimir, Jr. '52, Dexter, Nathaniel Thayer '50 (Manager...
Conspirator (M-G-M). The Sally Benson script, based on the Humphrey Slater novel, is more a study of stupidity than treason. Robert Taylor, a wooden-faced major in a British Guards regiment, has been a Red agent since he was 15, apparently because he enjoyed his conspiratorial adolescence in Ireland. He breaks party discipline by marrying Elizabeth Taylor, an American visitor to London, who is portrayed as vain, vapid and addicted to double-takes. Since even his addlepated wife soon catches on that he is a traitor, the party orders Robert to kill her. On a duck hunt...