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Several hundred years later, Israel became a Theocracy and, later still, a kingdom under Saul of the Benjamin Tribe, annointed by Samuel "the last Judge in Israel." Other kings were David and Solomon, after whom the Kingdom was divided: Kingdom of Israel; Kingdom of Judah, which was at one time captured by Nebuchadnezzar who destroyed Jerusalem and carried the Jews into Babylonian captivity. The Kingdom of Israel was destroyed by Sargon, King of Assyria, in 772 B.C. The Kingdom of Judah came to an end when Titus destroyed Jerusalem in A.D. 70. Some 60 years later, the Emperor Hadrian...
...Benjamin M. Anderson, economist of the Chase National Bank, Manhattan, has entered the lists on the other side. Mr. Anderson, in upholding the gold standard as against the "managed currency" proposal, naturally encounters the theories of Mr. Keynes. He refers to them .as "a refined and subtle form of greenbackism," declares that it is safer to trust gold's fluctuation in value than it is to trust politicians' "management" of a paper currency without any outside check or limits on their operations...
...meeting of the University Hand last Wednesday the officers for the year 1925-26 were elected. They are Ambrose Francis Keeley '27 of Fall River, president: Richard Newton Benjamin '25 of New York, manager; Randolph Piper '27 of Lexington, treasurer; Richard Loud '27 of Belmont, secretary; and Robert Thornton smith '27 of Saco, Me., secretary...
...when questioned last night concerning the recent demands which have been made by a Mr. J. Henry Smythe Jr., of New York, that an investigation be made by the University, and the Academy of Arts and Sciences, as to the truth of the famous "kite flying" experiment of Benjamin Franklin. The demand was made in a letter to the University, which charged Professor McAdie with detracting from Franklin's name by calling the kite incident "a myth," and demanded that committees be formed to determine the truth of the charge...
...Henry Smythe, executive secretary of the Benjamin Franklin memorial committee of the New York Sons of the American Revolution, has asked the President and Fellows to investigate Benjamin Franklin's contribution to the science of electricity. The famous experiment of the key and kite, resulting in the only shock of Franklin's life, is even doubted by incredulous scientists. Such belitttling of the school-boys favorite picture of Franklin "defying the lightning like Ajax Telamen", should certainly be investigated, even though a disastrous precedent...