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...that the great officers of State and particularly the Executive, should at fixed periods return to that mass from which they were at first taken, in order that they may feel and respect those rights and interests which are again to be personally valuable to them." Concurred Benjamin Franklin: "In free governments, the rulers are the servants, and the people their superiors. For the former, therefore, to return among the latter was not to degrade but to promote them...
...sides skillfully. On business' teams, he lined up such stalwarts as Old Colony Trust Co.'s T. Jefferson Coolidge, Dime Savings Bank's Philip Adolphus Benson, Guaranty Trust Co.'s Robert L. Garner, Bowery Savings Bank's Earl Bryan Schwulst, Kuhn Loeb's Benjamin J. Buttenwieser. On Government's team, he picked such men as Jerome Frank, Leon Henderson, Ben Cohen, Lauchlin Currie, Emanuel Alexander Goldenweiser, Commerce's Richard V. Gilbert...
...haired, blue-eyed Lieut. Colonel Lewis Elaine Hershey. A descendant of antimilitarist Mennonites who migrated to Pennsylvania in 1709, Lieut. Colonel Hershey has specialized on Army conscription plans since 1926. His technical superior on the Joint Army and Navy Selective Service Committee is the Navy's Lieut. Commander Benjamin Stacey Killmaster. But the Navy has little need of conscripts, will leave the job of running the first peacetime U. S. draft largely to Lewis Hershey. By law, either a civilian or a military man may have the $10,000-a-year post of Draft Administrator. The Army hopes that...
...thirteen Varsity members are: Benjamin A. Barnes '41, William Edgar, Jr. '41, George H. Hanford '41, Captain David O. Ives '41, Henry R. Murphy '42, Morton Myerson '42, Arthur G. Neff, Jr. '42, Roger B. Oresman '41, John G. Penson '42, Daniel S. Porr '42, Ernest C. Staber '42, Llewellyn Vorley '41, and Joseph P. Willetts...
...twelve years he worked at union organizing, quit to go into the teaming business for himself, sold out, weaved in & out of union work with occasional side ventures such as running a nightclub, working in three Chicago laundries. Three years ago a lawyer named Benjamin E. Cohen, attorney for a bankrupt Chicago laundry workers' union, asked Donovan why he didn't organize the city's 18,000 laundry workers. Bill went back to his first love with such vigor that within a few months his local (No. 46) had a signed contract with the 137 members...