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...Benjamin Franklin's advice about hanging together might well be repeated to the men who are supposed to be doing something to alleviate the toils and troubles of manpower allocation. While every newspaper, lecture, and political analyst in the country shouts the absolute necessity of a quick solution, the important groups controlling large numbers of men are having their own private little...
Opposing him, however, Benjamin F. Wright, associate professor of Government, stated that the election was not decided on a party basis but rather on the merits of the individual men concerned...
...Johnston, who took over the army Beauregard left. "Small, soldierly and greying, with a certain gamecock jauntiness," Johnston was already smoldering with rage at Jefferson Davis over being placed fourth in a list of full generals. Ceremonious, bad-tempered notes passed back & forth. The Secretary of War, Judah P. Benjamin, maddened Johnston by going over his head in military matters and out-arguing him afterward. At one sore point, Johnston beseeched Benjamin to help "create the belief in the army that I am its commander...
Policy Maker. As his chief attorney, Jimmy Byrnes brought back to a dominant role in Washington a man whose words and ideas had once spelled magic-Benjamin Victor Cohen, the idealistic, philosophical half of the once super-active, super-powerful team of White House favorites, Corcoran & Cohen...
Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek sent a check for $10,000 to Jap-tortured James Benjamin Powell, editor (until Pearl Harbor) of the China Weekly Review. His feet mutilated as a result of his mistreatment, the once-husky editor has been abed since he reached the U.S. in August. Into a fund originally intended simply to pay Powell's hospital expenses have already gone: $7,000 from the National Press Club; $3,000 from Chinese newsmen in China; $1,700 from the Overseas Press Club in Manhattan; more besides...