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William O. Moseley, Jr., travelling fellowships to Benjamin Alexander '30, Dorchester; and David G. Cogan '32, Peabody; George Cheyne Shattuck Memorial fellowship to Fred H. Allen, Jr., 4M., Holyoke...
During a dinner given on July 27, in celebration of the Anglo-Turkish treaty at Berlin, Benjamin Disraeli characterized William Gladstone, Liberal opponent of the Prime Minister's Eastern policy, as "a sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and glorify himself."-ED. Details...
Speaking for C.I.O. was Philip Murray, 52, calm, suave chairman of the Steel Workers Organizing Committee. He it was who negotiated the details of C.I.O.'s contract with U. S. Steel Corp. A Scot from Lanark, his opponent in those negotiations was another miner's son, Benjamin Franklin Fairless, last week named as Big Steel's next president (see p. 59). (As they started their talks, Steelman Fairless, recalling that his father, too, had been a union man, said to Laborman Murray: ". . . Call me Ben." In his soft burr, Mr. Murray replied: "Yes, Mr. Fairless...
Along with Myron Taylor's retirement will come that of U. S. Steel's President William A. Irvin, now a year from the retirement age of 65. To succeed him, Big Steel's directors last week picked 47-year-old Benjamin F. Fairless, who began as a schoolmaster, tried his hand at railroad engineering, joined Central Steel Co. in 1913, eventually became vice president. Through various mergers, Ben Fairless rose to be executive vice president of Republic Steel, left that post to become president of Myron Taylor's Amalgamated Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corp. in 1935. Following...
Somewhat breathless from all this, newly-elected Benjamin Fairless hustled home from the directors' meeting to his suite in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria, was so agog he forgot to collect his key at the desk on the ground floor. Finding the door locked and his wife out, Ben Fairless asked a passing maid to let him in. Suspiciously she refused. So did another. "Hell!" snapped President-elect Fairless, "This is a fine pickle. Nobody knows me around here...