Word: franklin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Benjamin Franklin's Life", Professor Murdock, Harvard...
...group of British and U. S. correspondents waited day after day in a draughty courtyard in the Rue de Crenelle playing cards, drinking beer, arguing, squabbling, waiting for Marshal Foch to die. Last week the identical men were waiting in another courtyard, across the Seine in the Rue Franklin beneath the window of Georges Clémenceau...
...month was the shrewd method employed by one Cornelius J. Donovan, 54, confirmed criminal, to effect a swindle in Manhattan which even the police praised for its ingenuity. The great man whose name, town house and butler played unwitting parts in the crime was New York's Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt. The jewelmart was Fifth Avenue's fashionable Black, Starr & Frost. The salesman who gave up his card to the persuasive purchaser was one Thomas Patterson. The rings were two, valued at $800 and $750, containing diamonds set in platinum...
Last month came more news of Antioch patronage by General Motors. Charles Franklin Kettering, vice president of General Motors, president of General Motors Corp., had given the college a $350,000 science building which was to have 200 rooms, laboratories, a subbasement carved into solid rock for experiments requiring constant temperature, continual forced ventilation...
Divorced. Mrs. Lois Knowlston Dodge Manning, onetime wife of Horace E. Dodge Jr., motor maker; from Lieut. Benjamin Franklin Manning. Grounds: extreme cruelty...