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...The company began as Franklin, a Wall Street brokerage founded by Rupert Johnson Sr in 1947 and named in honour of founding father Benjamin Franklin....
...Chasing a controversial innovator was not a novel task for Isaacson: he has already penned hefty, bestselling biographies of Steve Jobs, Jennifer Doudna, Leonardo da Vinci, Albert Einstein and Benjamin Franklin...
...1976; John deButts, chairman, AT&T, New York, May 5 1976; César Chávez, organiser, United Farm Workers, Keene, California, June 27 1976; Charles Shaffer, attorney, New York, July 9 1976; Herbert J Miller Jr...
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...Benjamin Franklin, the ultimate self-made American, referred to Pennsylvania’s 18th-century backwoodsman as “the refuse of America”....
...Benjamin Franklin kept up this practice for his entire life....
...Antonio Davon Brown, 29 Brown, was reportedly a captain in the US Army Reserve and a graduate from Florida A&M University....
...Stacy Brown-Philpot CEO, TaskRabbit 9. Karen Blackett Chairwoman, MediaCom UK 10. William F. Kornegay, Jr. Senior vice-president, supply management, Hilton Worldwide 11....
...In 1979 “To Love Somebody” received an earnest rendition by Hank Williams Jr, giving it country credibility....
...“We object publicly and as loudly as we can on behalf of Michael Brown Jr’s family that this process is broken,” Mr Crump said....
...Benjamin Franklin once said that by failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail....
...The Columbia University professor recounts how powerful Southern congressmen rescued US capitalism by passing Franklin D Roosevelt’s reforms – at the price of reinforcing racial segregation....
...Pre-book timed tickets for the incredible Barnes Foundation’s collection of paintings in its big new home off Benjamin Franklin Parkway – Philadelphia’s version of the Champs-Elysées – and marvel at this...
...Benjamin Britten : A Life in the Twentieth Century, by Paul Kildea, Allen Lane, £30, 688 pages Letters from a Life : The Selected Letters of Benjamin Britten, Volume Six, 1966-1976, edited by Philip Reed...
...Woodson, Alain Locke and John Hope Franklin – all Harvard graduates....
...Casey Jr. Senator Patrick J....
...Less than 10 years before the Declaration of Independence, Benjamin Franklin said that of all monarchs George III was “the very best in the world and the most amiable”....
...Franklin lets out a cry of “Awopbopaloobop” as lightning strikes his kite....
...Set beside each other, Cornelia Parker’s feathers are the ultimate lightweights of my gathering of travellers; making it to the south pole or the summit of Everest; into Benjamin Franklin’s bedroom and on...
...After learning of his cancer, he courted Isaacson assiduously to write the biography, no doubt attracted by the author’s earlier work on great figures such Albert Einstein and Benjamin Franklin....
...“All mankind”, runs a proverb sometimes attributed to Benjamin Franklin, “is divided into three classes, those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move.”...
...Mr Brown’s new suit in Franklin Circuit Court lists as targets the unidentified owners of those websites but specifically names Pocket Kings of Dublin, thought to be the co-owner of Full Tilt....
...He cites Benjamin Franklin, who declared in 1755 that “those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety”....
...What we are doing in this country will make Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin roll over in their graves.” It is a phrase that crops up again and again....
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