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...Ranking Negro officer is 64-year-old Brigadier General Benjamin Oliver Davis who, although past retirement age, has been kept in service by Franklin Roosevelt because he is an able soldier and a fine good-will ambassador for 13,000,000 U.S. Negroes...
Collectors were green-eyed when they saw the only known piece of furniture to carry the label of Newport Cabinetmaker Edmund Townsend, the only known carved chair to carry the famous name of its maker Benjamin Randolph; they consoled themselves by saying the collection had cost too much, that Karolik had been taken in on prices even though he had top-notch material. Scholars were excited to find as many as a dozen pieces ascribed to the lesser-known Boston maker John Seymour, whose Satiny finishes and tricky inlay patterns made his furniture more elegant than that of most contemporaries...
...After having held up defense by a week's strike in captive coal mines before he would consent to arbitration, John Lewis this week got what he asked for from the arbitration board. The arbitrators (Lewis, U.S. Steel's Benjamin Fairless, the public's John R. Steelman) voted 2-to-1 that the captive coal mines should sign union-shop contracts. The lone dissenter was Mr. Fairless, who nevertheless repeated his promise that his company would bow to the board's final ruling. The other steel companies involved had also agreed in advance to accept...
...Died. Benjamin Patterson Bole, 68, publisher of the Cleveland Plain Dealer; of a heart attack; in Cleveland...
...noon Sunday the speaker will be Dr. Luther Gulick, Committee on Post-War Planning, National Resources Planning Board, who has just returned from a conference on post-war plans in England. He will speak on "When Peace Comes." Professor Philip Cabot will preside, and the comentator will be Benjamin M. Selekman, Lecturer on Urban Industrial Problems at Harvard...