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Back at the White House President Hoover found much to do. His secretary, George Akerson, was called in from the golf links, instructed to keep the executive offices open as an information bureau. He despatched his military aide, Col. Campbell Benjamin Hodges to the Wyoming Avenue house to render any service possible. He canceled a dinner engagement he had for that evening with the White House Correspondents Association. Acting Secretary of State Wilbur J. Carr prepared a public proclamation which the President signed...
...Postmaster General under President Benjamin Harrison (1889-93), he "established pneumatic tubes, ship-posts, pioneered for rural delivery, parcels post, postal savings, and fought for government ownership of telegraph and telephone." In 1896 he bought out A. T. Stewart, went into business in Manhattan...
...Manhattan one John Benjamin, 60, was disturbed by the sound of a children's party in the flat of one Mrs. Stella Argos. just above his own. Rushing upstairs, he asked Mrs. Argos to quiet the youngsters. When she seemed unconcerned, John Benjamin drew a knife, stabbed her twice in the head...
...female parts which will be played by Radcliffe students, have not been announced. The Harvard men in the cast are: Benjamin Baker '31. A. G. Gerstein '30, A. L. Grossman '30, C. N. Jacobson '31, Murray Kernitsky ocC. A. L. Kowarksky '31, P. J. Kozody '32, R. M. Lefkovits 2G. Theodore Levin IL., Cecil Lubell '33, and H. J. Tarutz...
...against the same background twice as long as before. Countrysides, large masses of people, street shots, ballet numbers are better in Grandeur, but since the height of the Grandeur projection is practically the same as the old size there is no clarifying of perspective, no three-dimensional relief. Director Benjamin Stoloff has worked hard to show what he could do with choruses, always a baffling problem in conventional-sized films: wavering ribbons of dancing girls issue from two huge shoes; there is a baby carriage big enough to hold a dozen squallers at a time, and a birthday cake that...