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Appointed. Benjamin ("Benny") Leonard, longtime (1917-25) World Light- weight Champion: to coach boxing at the School of Business of the City College of New York...
...Democratic primary because he bolted the national ticket in 1928, Demo- crats last week nominated for the Senate John H. Bankhead, Jasper attorney, son of the late Senator John Hollis Bankhead, uncle of voluptuous, London-petted Actress Tallulah Bankhead. The defeated candidate: Frederick Ingate Thompson, Mobile publisher. Judge Benjamin Meek Miller, anti-Klan, won the regular Democratic nomination for Governor. Senator Heflin, who plans to run as an independent Senatorial candidate in November, urged his friends to keep away from the polls last week. The State's normal Democratic primary vote of over 200,000 was reduced to less...
Because Statesman & Scientist Benjamin Franklin won his fame in Phila- delphia, few but historians are prone to associate him with Boston. He was Boston-born Jan. 6, 1706, son of Josiah Franklin, a tallow chandler. Not until 1723, after he had written many an essay for his brother James's New England Courant, "first sensational newspaper in America," did Benjamin Franklin migrate to Philadelphia...
Last week Methodist Bishop Herbert Welch (North) was on the Pacific coast. The first week of September he will sail from Vancouver for Korea on the Empress of Japan. With him will be Bishop James Chamberlain Baker (North) of Korea. At Seoul they will convene with Bishop William Benjamin Beauchamp (South), seven other U. S. Methodist clergymen and ten Koreans to organize a Methodist Church of Korea...
...Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddie, Jr., Daughter Mary of the late Tobacco Tycoon Benjamin Newton Duke, set a record: $77,000 duty on personal foreign purchases (jewelry, clothing, souvenirs), largest individual duty ever paid in U. S. history. (Previous record...