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...Franklin Institute, widely known for the continuation of Benjamin Franklin's interest in gathering results of natural scientific research and for promotion of further research, will be represented at the ceremonies by its president, Charles V. Redding, who will make the award...
Since the repeal of prohibition, U.S. women have made great strides toward alcoholic equality with men. In last week's Journal of the American Medical Association, Dr. David Benjamin. Rotman produced a chart showing that the ratio of female to male alcoholic addicts in Chicago climbed from...
...admirers usually credit its special virtues to Bovard, or to the present trio of top men: cocky, trigger-tempered Ralph Coghlan, editorial-page chief; moose-tall, desk-pounding Managing Editor Benjamin Harrison Reese; Cartoonist Daniel Fitzpatrick. They were, indeed, all on the team that carried through the P-D's most successful crusades: the Teapot Dome exposure, the impeachment of Federal Judge English, the Union Electric Co. slush-fund scandal, the 1936 registration frauds. But Pulitzer has backed them, ignoring the protests of his country-club friends...
...Judge Takes the Stand," by Joseph N. Ullman; "The Nature of the Judicial Process," by Benjamin N. Cardozo; "Free Speech in the United States," by Zechariah Chafee; "The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club," by Charles Dickens...
Blackface & Blacklists. A confirmed, dapper bachelor, Moss was born in Manhattan 57 years ago, of Austrian parents, quit school in the seventh grade. As a young man, he went into the wool-shrinking business with his brother Benjamin and with the future cinemagnate William Fox. As a young man he was also part of a blackface vaudeville team that played clubs and bazaars. Later the Moss brothers operated a chain of movie houses, and Paul Moss produced several Broadway plays. Rich at 30, Paul Moss retired, lapped up culture by "attending every lecture in town." He was no novice...