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...accuser, one Benjamin Freedman, was a peculiar and disgruntled zealot-a self-styled "excommunicated Jew" who had given financial backing to a wild-eyed, anti-Semitic hate sheet. At his instigation the Senate Armed Services Committee solemnly called a hearing, put an ex-Communist named Ralph De Sola on the witness stand and listened to four hours of hair-raising testimony...
Some extremely odd and unpalatable aspects of Benjamin Freedman's charges began to seep out in testimony. The letter of indictment which he sent the Senate had been drafted with the help of Jew-baiting Gerald L. K. Smith in the offices of Mississippi's vitriolic Representative John Rankin. Freedman testified that he had been visited by Don Surine (an employee of Wisconsin's Senator Joe McCarthy) and Edward K. Nellor (an employee of Radio Commentator Fulton Lewis Jr.), who came bearing a letter of introduction from Rabble-Rouser Smith...
...major leagues elected Happy Chandler commissioner of baseball 5½ years ago when the game thought it needed friends in Washington to survive the manpower drafts of World War II. Albert Benjamin Chandler, junior Senator from Kentucky, had more than a toothpaste smile and a pump-handle handshake; he had good connections. Last week, with manpower drafts threatening baseball once again, the club owners could still use friends in Washington, but they had had enough of Happy Chandler...
...member of the council is Benjamin Franklin Macdonald '52 of Pittsburgh and Winthrop House...
...your readers know that Benjamin Woodbridge was the first graduate of Harvard College? He left England, when a boy, for America in 1629, and was Harvard's first student in 1642, Returning to England, when a young man, he became Rector of Newbury, which living he held for the first two years of Charles H's reign. He refused to conform and became the Minister of the United Presbyterians and Independents. Until his death in 1864 he was revered as "a wholly able and painful minister." G. B. Suggett Newbury, Berks. England