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...ordered to defend themselves against a citation for contempt of court because they criticized the dismissal of an extortion suit against a State Representative (TIME, March 25). Last week Circuit Judge Thomas J. Rowe slapped a $2,000 fine on the Post-Dispatch, dismissed the citation against Managing Editor Benjamin Harrison Reese, but hit Editorial Editor Ralph Coghlan with a fine of $200 and 20 days in jail, Cartoonist Daniel Robert Fitzpatrick with $100 fine and ten days...
...Autocrat Bensinger died. Into control swarmed a squad of five young men with new ideas, led by Benjamin Bensinger's two sons, President Robert F. and Executive Vice President Benjamin E. Weeding out remnants of father's regime, R. F. and B. E., no autocrats, gave their executives' ideas free play. Sales rose, profits soared from $49,058 (1935) to last year's $2,037,435. Last week, at the annual meeting in Chicago, B-B-C stockholders heard President Bensinger predict further sales gains...
...largest maker of bar fixtures. But Prohibition cooled the bar business. The music division was sold to Warner Bros. Pictures in 1930. B-B-C lost $3,047,963 in 1929, lost again in five of the next six years. Steering it helplessly in this heavy weather was Benjamin Bensinger, old-fashioned autocrat, grandson of Founder Brunswick...
Three appointments and 13 promotions were announced at the same time, including the appointment of Theodore Spencer, visiting lecturer in English from Cambridge and former assistant professor of English, to the post of associate professor of English, and the promotion of Benjamin F. Wright, Jr. to associate professor of Government...
...Benjamin F. Wright, Jr., associate professor of Government; George C. Homans, Instructor in Sociology; Kenneth P. Kempton, lecturer on English; Frederick R. McCreary, preceptor in English Composition; and George L. Stout, head of the department of Conservation. Fogg Art Museum...