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Speaking of the coming International Congress of Philosophy (TIME, April 5, p. 22) you say, "The formal host of the Congress is the American Philosophical Society." You have made a pardonable confusion between the American Philosophical Society and the American Philosophical Association. The former was founded by Benjamin Franklin in Philadelphia in 1744. In that age, a "philosophical" society was one devoted to all the special sciences, including the mathematical, the physical and the biological. The Society founded by Franklin still covers this wide field, and still meets in Philadelphia. The American Philosophical Association, on the other hand...
...Confusing to the minds of many was the $300,000 lease brokerage fee paid jointly to Benjamin L. Winchell of St. Louis and Samuel Pryor of Manhattan. Mr. Pryor put his $150,000 split into the Owenoke Corporation, of which he, Percy Rockefeller and Frederick B. Adams are equal partners, to complete (according to Percy Rockefeller's testimony) his capital share thereof. The implication was that Percy Rockefeller, who had recommended the leasing, had personally profited by $50,000, the partnership third of Mr. Pryor's brokerage fee. "But only in a sense," hearers of the admission were good enough...
...Senator may be expelled for revealing the proceedings of an executive session. Senator Bingham thought one Senator had been. He was wrong. In 1844, Senator Benjamin Tappan of Ohio, after deep apologies, was forgiven for having divulged confidential information to newspapers. It has long been the custom of the Senate tacitly to permit a Senator to tell how he himself voted in secret session. Thus Senator Overman of North Carolina jubilantly boasts he voted against Mr. Woodlock...
Next day, a highly commendable young man, a polished, a politically-minded young man ferried across to the Island, took charge. His name is Benjamin M. Day, by profession a downtown lawyer, by inclination a onetime president of the Young Men's Republican Club. Said Major Curran: "Ben Day is an honest, able fellow!" Lawyer Day said that, as he had never made a special study of immigration matters, "it would be absurd for me to discuss plans...
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