Word: benjamin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fellowship was awarded to Benjamin I. Schwartz '38, assistant professor of History, for work on the "Intellectual development of modern China." Schwartz will spend six months in Japan...
Although the announcement contained no mention of a possible successor, an editorial appearing in today's "Yale News" advocated the appointment of Benjamin C. Nangle, associate professor of English...
During its 62nd annual Continental Congress in Washington, the Daughters of the American Revolution announced that they had accepted proof that Private Benjamin Doud, born May 10, 1761 in Middletown, Conn., was a direct ancestor of Mamie Doud Eisenhower. The First Lady was forthwith welcomed into the D.A.R., and some 4,000 of the ladies trooped to the White House to welcome their newest member. It was the biggest White House reception since the inauguration, and marked the end of a 15-year rift between the White House and the D.A.R. The spat started when the late F.D.R. once welcomed...
British Composer Benjamin Britten announced in London that he had finished his new opera Gloriana, which will have its premiere in Covent Garden six days after the coronation. His next task, said Britten, is to locate a dozen trumpets and trumpeteers "who can look Elizabethan," since the opera is about the life of the first Queen Bess...
...Council for American Education and the defunct American Patriots, Inc. (listed as "subversive" by the U.S. Attorney General), who fought the appointment of Felix Frankfurter to the Supreme Court in 1939 on the ground that Frankfurter was a Jew; and Genevieve Egan Tillar, sixtyish, widow of millionaire Texas Oilman Benjamin J. Tillar; in Washington...