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...Yoakum. Benjamin F. Yoakum of Manhattan is a railroad man. His father was a doctor and a minister in Texas. The son began his career as a "colonization agent" of a Texas railroad. He rose, became a railroad president (St. Louis & San Francisco). He gave "much thought" to the cost of living, etc. In February, 1922, he came forward with a plan for funding foreign War debts to the U. S. He proposed that the debtor nations issue to the U. S. 4½% 50-year bonds with a sinking fund of 2% yearly. With these as collateral...
...Brooklyn, one Abraham Lieberman obtained permission from a Supreme Court Justice to change his name to Benjamin Harris-a name which he chose because he had observed that in Who's Who that there were 63 persons named Harris, only one named Lieberman. He was confounded when informed that, in the directory of his city, there were 35 persons named Benjamin Harris, 33 named Abraham Lieberman...
...important measures. "I have seen [in the House which has a cloture rule] a measure involving scores of millions of annual expenditure for all time to come put through with only 40 minutes of debate and the time parceled out by the opposing leaders. The founder of this journal [Benjamin Franklin], speaking in the Constitutional Convention, and using words suited to the polite customs of that day, described the Senate as 'the saucer into which the tea of legislation would be poured for cooling before drinking...
Adoniram Judson Sidney Lanier Matthew F. Maury James Otis William Penn Wendell Phillips Paul Revere Henry H. Richardson Benjamin Rush Philip H. Sheridan Benjamin Thompson Henry David Thoreau Noah Webster Walt Whitman
Criminal Anarchy. New York State has a law forbidding anyone to incite persons to overthrow by violence the constituted Government. Under this law, one Benjamin Gitlow, radical Socialist, was convicted because, in 1919, he urged "mass industrial revolts" and "revolutionary mass action" in a published article. Gitlow fought the case to the Supreme Court on the free-speech issue...