Word: benjamin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Benjamin Minge Duggar, discoverer of aureomycin D.Sc...
GEORGE H. BENJAMIN Little Rock...
...Incas) and biographer (Elihu Yale-The American Nabob of Queen Square); after long illness; in Washington. Tall (6 ft. 4 in.), scholarly Hiram Bingham was one of four legislators censured by the U.S. Senate in its 167-year history (the others: South Carolina's John L. McLaurin and Benjamin ("Pitchfork Ben") Tillman, 1902; Wisconsin's Senator Joe McCarthy, 1954). In 1929 he brought (as his aide) a Connecticut manufacturers' lobbyist into a closed session of the Senate Finance Committee which was considering a tariff bill of special interest to manufacturers. But politics was never his true province...
...junior year, the Class found its football good and could point to the fact that five of its number--Benjamin H. Ticknor, John N. Trainer, Jr., Victor M. Harding, Jr., Arthur W. Huguley, Jr., and Robert S.Ogden--were mainstays of a fine Crimson team. The Army game that year ended in a 20-20 tie: it was termed an epic struggle at the time, and what stood out was the passcatching of Harding...
Appointed to the bench by President Roosevelt in 1942 at the age of 35, Wyzanski said in his letter that the judges he most admires, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., Justice Benjamin Cardozo, and Judge Augustus N. Hand, "have been the strictest in applying to themselves a self-denying ordinance when they were offered attractive posts outside of their courts...