Word: benjamin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Benjamin Winter also immigrated from Russia. His early U. S. years were spent in painting houses. Now Mr. Winter's business address is No. 250 Park Ave. He is a leading dealer in apartment houses, particularly in choice Park Avenue property...
...first place, it will list the securities of real estate corporations. Thus, for instance, Benjamin Winter, Inc., potent Park Avenue realty house, might well issue 100,000 common shares, 100,000 preferred and $1,000,000 in bonds. To be sure, there is nothing to prevent Benjamin Winter, Inc., from doing such financing without any exchange. But with 250 potent real estate houses all offering stocks, bonds and other securities in a recognized exchange devoted exclusively to realtors, the market for Winter securities would be better than if the financing was undertaken as an isolated effort. Furthermore, the Exchange will...
...Sculptor Houdon was chosen by Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson, as "the best [sculptor] in any of the European States," to do a statue of Washington. With Franklin he traveled to the U. S., stayed two weeks at Mount Vernon, took measurements, made plaster casts. He is said to have sought vainly for the desired facial expression until he saw Washington dismiss an avaricious horse trader...
Divorced. Col. Henry Huddleston Rogers of Manhattan, oil tycoon; by Mrs. Mary Benjamin Rogers; in Utrecht, Holland; grounds, "infidelity...
...such Oxford occasions memorable remarks often made. In 1864. at the beginning of the evolution controversy (see p. 40), the great Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli exclaimed: "The question is this: Is man an ape or an angel? I, my lord, am on the side of the angels...