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Word: benton (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Newspaperman Klein, who is now 33, did not retire into the hills of Connecticut to write novels. Instead, he joined the staff of Benton & Bowles, Manhattan advertising agency...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Birth Of An Advertisingman | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

...Bula Benton Edmondson Croker,* second wife and widow of Tammany Chief Richard Croker, lost the famed Croker-McDonald suit involving the sale of 10,000 feet of Palm Beach ocean frontage. Mrs. Croker had sought to break a nine-year-old option that gave J. B. McDonald, Palm Beach realtor, the privilege of buying for $150 per foot the land now valued at over $700. To Mrs. Croker the difference will be $5,000,000, besides large attorney fees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PEOPLE: Aug. 19, 1929 | 8/19/1929 | See Source »

Prospering, expanding, Lane Bryant, Inc. last week announced the purchase of Associated Apparel Stores, holding company for the Newman & Benton chain of eleven cloak and suit establishments; have also bought the Spies Store, Newark, and plan soon to open stores in Washington, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Cincinnati. It is intended that the Bryant chain shall eventually include no less than 100 service stations for the stout. The present Bryant system does an annual business of about $15,000,000, some 40% by mail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Large Bryant Figures | 3/18/1929 | See Source »

Docket number 131 is the Harlan, Club (Meyers, Benton) versus the Bracton Club (Hanna, Aitkin). The meeting will be at 33 Walter Hastings Hall with C. L. Kades 2L as chief justice...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In the Graduate Schools | 1/22/1929 | See Source »

...chance that the tradition would be upset. With the taste for theories and computations common to all baseball fans, they tabulated the qualifications of the other clubs in the National League. They considered the Giants, able and expensive, but needing a pitcher, or three pitchers, since they had one-Benton. They considered Brooklyn, strong in the box, ragged afield, indifferent at bat; Chicago, lacking an infield of major league quality; Cincinnati, slipped from its lead because of injuries to valuable pitchers; Pittsburgh with no one in the box except "Spitballer" Grimes; Boston in seventh place, apparently hopeless, but having...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Midseason | 7/9/1928 | See Source »

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