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...When the U.S. Constitutional Convention was in labor, old Benjamin Franklin moved that a chaplain be appointed to ask God's help before each session. Alexander Hamilton opposed the motion. According to one account, he made a flowery speech lauding the talents of the assembled delegates, expressing confidence in their wisdom and concluding that he did not see "the necessity of calling in foreign aid." While George Washington stared stonily at Hamilton, the convention carried Franklin's motion. Nevertheless, God is not mentioned in the U.S. Constitution, although He is named in the Declaration of Independence...
Last week TIME Correspondent Robert Benjamin flew to Asunción for the inauguration of Paraguay's new President, Juan Natalicio Gonzalez. He cabled...
...Labor Lost. In Chicago, Benjamin Karns lugged a door into court to prove that he had not broken it down 'to beat his exwife, was jailed when the judge discovered a loose panel...
...ailing William Z. Foster, a radical for almost 50 years, thrice the C.P.'s presidential candidate, now its chairman; shrewd, greying Eugene Dennis, C.P. general secretary, already on bond awaiting appeal of his one-year sentence for contempt of Congress (TIME, July 7, 1947); tall, Harvard-trained Benjamin J. Davis, New York City's only Negro (and only Communist) councilman; bald John Williamson, the party's labor secretary, out on bail pending a deportation hearing (TIME, Feb. 23) ; stocky Jack Stachel, little known outside the party but one of its veteran propagandists, also tapped for deportation; Mississippi...
...Davis was summoned to the White House. On the steps leading to the White House rose garden, he listened quietly to a complimentary speech from Harry Truman, received a testimonial scroll signed by the President and Davis' Army comrades. After 50 years in the Army, Brigadier General Benjamin O. Davis, 71, had retired. Among the guests was Lieut. Colonel Benjamin O. Davis Jr., commander of the 332nd Fighter Wing, the regular Air Force's ranking Negro officer...