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...think something profoundly significant lies in the testimony of Benjamin Davis, one of the eleven Communists on trial in Manhattan, as reported in "Man & Automaton" [TIME, July...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 8, 1949 | 8/8/1949 | See Source »

Died. Walter Miller, 85, classical scholar, longtime dean of the University of Missouri Graduate School, whose 1944 translation (with William Benjamin Smith) of Homer's Iliad into dactylic hexameter was hailed as "a triumph of ingenuity"; in Columbia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Aug. 8, 1949 | 8/8/1949 | See Source »

...Reason, and Masonry's doctrine of fraternity, equality and enlightenment had a wide appeal. Frederick the Great became a member. Russian aristocrats took it up. English traders distributed charters for new lodges overseas. George Washington and Paul Revere were ardent brethren. So was Benjamin Franklin, deist and moralizer, who helped initiate Voltaire into the rites...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ORGANIZATIONS: The World of Hiram Abif | 7/25/1949 | See Source »

...tall, broad-shouldered Negro told a solemn story in a Manhattan federal courtroom last week. Manhattan Councilman Benjamin J. Davis, one of the eleven Communists on trial for conspiring to advocate the overthrow of the U.S. Government by force, was the third defendant to take the stand. He was the first to explain with any degree of conviction how and why some Americans become Communists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: Man & Automaton | 7/18/1949 | See Source »

...Benjamin Wright...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The President and Politics | 7/4/1949 | See Source »

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