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...House. No U. S. family has been so familiar with the Executive Mansion as the Tafts. Grandfather Alfonso first went there in Abraham Lincoln's time, saw much of it as War Secretary and Attorney General under President U. S. Grant; Grandfather Herron was a classmate of President Benjamin Harrison, was also intimate with President Rutherford B. Hayes. Grandmother Herron, a friend of Mrs. Hayes, stayed at the White House many weeks. And from 1901, when President Theodore Roosevelt moved in, to 1913, when Father William Howard moved out, Bob Taft was a constant guest or resident there...
Records of the Bank of North America disclosed that thrift-teaching Benjamin Franklin was overdrawn at his bank nearly half the time. Reason: In his day U. S. banks (like British banks today) customarily lent money to their customers in the form of overdrafts...
...letter day in the Red career of big, soft, heavy-eyed. 48-year-old Benjamin Gitlow came on May 14, 1929. The scene was Moscow's regal Red Hall. The occasion: a full meeting of the Praesidium of the Communist International. Purpose: to whip the recalcitrant U. S. delegation (Gitlow, chairman) into line behind Boss Stalin. In charge was Stalin himself. It was 4:00 a. m. Leaden-eyed, grey-faced with weariness and capitulation, the world's top Communists had heard Stalin denounce the U. S. comrades as Right Wingers, "rotten" diplomats, Hooverites, Babbitts, bourgeois opportunists...
...head of the column, a red-faced ungentlemanly subaltern in the rear. The general responded more favorably to the sight of a third officer: a fair young second-lieutenant with the right build for a horseman, a careless, well-bred face. Good stuff, this. "Who's that, Benjamin?" "Windrush, sir, Tubby Windrush." "Windrush . . . Windrush ... I knew his father. Get him here, will...
...Benjamin Frank Miller of Chicago's Zoller Memorial Dental Clinic reported that fluorine killed the bacteria which breed in mouth acids (lactobacilli), cause tooth decay. In addition, said Dr. Joseph F. Volker of the University of Rochester, fluorine enters into direct chemical combination with the teeth, strengthens them against decay...