Word: benjamin
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...oldest daily newspaper in America," descendant of the American Daily Advertiser (1784) and Benjamin Franklin's Weekly Pennsylvania Gazette...
...asserted: "The Jewish faith is predominantly the faith of liberty." He listed "some among the merchants who unhesitatingly signed the nonimportation resolution of 1765: Isaac Moses, Benjamin Levy, Samson Levy, David Franks, Joseph Jacobs, Hayman Levy Jr., Matthias Bush, Michael Gratz, Bernard Gratz, Isaac Franks, Moses Mordecai, Benjamin Jacobs, Samuel Lyon and Manuel Mordecai Noah...
...published to a wide audience in 1811, indicate the complete hypocrite -a varlet of guile and gusto to whom a naive generation quite naturally credited unnatural sins and the comradeship of Satan. Poet Frost, in a preface to the reissued memoirs, would place Burroughs beside Jonathan Edwards and Benjamin Franklin to complete the evidence that our young country grew all kinds of fine flowers...
Several hundred years later, Israel became a Theocracy and, later still, a kingdom under Saul of the Benjamin Tribe, annointed by Samuel "the last Judge in Israel." Other kings were David and Solomon, after whom the Kingdom was divided: Kingdom of Israel; Kingdom of Judah, which was at one time captured by Nebuchadnezzar who destroyed Jerusalem and carried the Jews into Babylonian captivity. The Kingdom of Israel was destroyed by Sargon, King of Assyria, in 772 B.C. The Kingdom of Judah came to an end when Titus destroyed Jerusalem in A.D. 70. Some 60 years later, the Emperor Hadrian...
During nearly 25 years, Judge Benjamin Barr Lindsey of Denver, Col., has had to fight for his office about a dozen times. By appointment or election, with or without party help (he is a Democrat in not very good standing), he has always got it. Last November, the Republicans (reputed to be led by the Ku Klux Klan), swept the state. But Lindsey held his seat by 117 votes. A recount was demanded. Last week, he appeared to be slipping. Meanwhile, appeals have gone through the Nation for financial and moral support. Some of the old enthusiasm for Mr. Judge...