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...Calumet horses kept moving under the watchful eye of Trainer H. A. ("Jimmy") Jones. But the one man most responsible for the stable's extraordinary success, recognized by his fellow horsemen as the best in the business with something to spare, wasn't even there. Calumet's famed Benjamin A. (for Allyn) Jones, trainer of five Kentucky Derby winners and leading money-winning trainer last year, was in Kentucky handling another string of Calumet horses...
When he was 16, folks wagged their heads mournfully and predicted that Benjamin would break his father. But Horace Jones, a covered-wagon man who got the choicest piece of land in northwestern Missouri, would take a lot of breaking. A shrewd, hard-bitten Welshman, he founded the town of Parnell, ran the Parnell bank, and knew more about raising cattle than anybody in Nodaway County. He wanted Ben to become a banker, but that wasn't in the cards...
Gump's sharp break with its incensescented past was decreed by Richard Benjamin Gump, 43, an artist-entrepreneur who took over as president in March 1947. This year he has boosted business 10% over 1948 (when the net profit was $160,000 on a gross of $2,600,000). To Dick Gump the change was part of a crusade against "that awful, stuffed-shirt attitude about art which scares the people and keeps the merchandise on your shelves...
This act, sponsored by State Senator Benjamin F. Feinberg, directs the Board of Regents, which governs the school system, to draw up a list of "subversive" organizations and dismiss any teachers or school administrators found belonging to them. It suggests that the Justice Department list of "subversive" groups be used, but leaves the matter entirely in the hands of the Regents...
Canwell imported the same group of witnesses that had been used at almost all other investigations of un-American activities. These witnesses included J. B. Matthews, former investigator for the Dies Committee, a Hearst journalist and the list of "reformed Communists" such as Benjamin Gitlow and George Hewitt. During the course of the committee hearings not only were members of the Washington faculty accused but such other figures as J. Robert Oppenheimer of the Princeton Institute of advanced study, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. '38, of Harvard, and General Dwight D. Eisenhower, were mentioned as men who "fronted" for Communists...