Word: benjamin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...State Public Service Commissioner Benjamin Feinberg whose family collected dividends on stock held in his son-in-law's name. Purchase price, paid out of dividends: $2,100. Present worth...
After seeing a picture of Benjamin Fairless, 63, U.S. Steel's president, in a company publication, the Federation of Women Shareholders in American Business advised him that he is getting too fat, suggested that he pass up dinner-table dividends and get a proxy to bolt food for him at six-course banquets...
...fist-sized chunks of plaster. Another bored a one-inch hole in the Republican legislative table, stinging the face of Republican Whip Leslie Arends with splinters, showering bits of wood on three California Congressmen who were piled up underneath the table. Other members dropped to the floor. Shouted Representative Benjamin James of Pennsylvania: "My God, this is real...
...Benjamin H. Heckscher of Bevon, Pa., and Wigglesworth Hall, has been elected captain of the freshman squash team...
...Fuseli's pictures were so violent and his vanity so strong that his contemporaries came to look on him as a character from one of his own drawings. Benjamin Robert Haydon, the historical painter, wrote five years after Fuseli's death: "[He] was undoubtedly the greatest genius of his day . . . But in the modes of conveying his thoughts ... he was a monster . . . His women are all strumpets, and his men all banditti, with the action of galvanized frogs, the dress of mountebanks, and the hue of pestilential putridity . . ." There is something terrifyingly timely in Fuseli's nightmarish...