Word: bedford
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...year all Canada has waited for the Hon. Henry Herbert Stevens, pinko-minded Conservative, to set up his own party. Mr. Stevens broke spectacularly with his old friend Premier Richard Bedford Bennett over "The Pamphlet," a Stevens expose of too ruggedly individualistic Canadian business practices (TIME, Nov. 5). Next he meekly accepted Bennett's reproofs, meekly resigned as Bennett's Minister of Trade & Commerce. Last week with elections scarcely two months off, Henry Herbert Stevens at last announced that he was prepared to challenge Canada's two old guard parties, the Conservatives and the Liberals, with...
...thought differently was Prime Minister Richard Bedford Bennett. The portly, pious Herbert Hoover of Canada uprose in the House of Commons to sputter: "There is no intention that this country should offer its surplus of grain at fire-sale prices or throw its surplus on the markets of the world so long as this Government exists." But recognizing that his belated New Dealish Government may go out of existence at the general election next autumn, Prime Minister Bennett added: ''It may well be that other policies may prevail, but they will prevail at the expense of this country...
...unexciting Canadian with many of Herbert Hoover's virtues is Conservative Premier Richard Bedford Bennett who, knowing that a fate like the U. S. ex-President's probably awaits him at Canada's next general election this year, has excitedly improvised a species of New Deal (TIME, Jan. 14). Last week in the Province of New Brunswick came a preliminary test. If the Conservative Premier's New Deal was catching on with Canada's masses, Mr. Bennett could hope that when New Brunswick elected its provincial legislature Conservative New Brunswick Premier Leonard Percy de Wolfe...
Architectural Plans and Elevations Neatly Executed On Short Notice by Richard Upjohn Orders Left at Mechanics Hall New Bedford...
...happened that a good friend of Richard Upjohn was the Rev. Jonathan Mayhew Wainright, assistant rector of Manhattan's Trinity Church. At the time that pious pile's walls were sagging badly, the whole structure in need of repair. Richard Upjohn went down from New Bedford, persuaded the Trinity Corporation to rebuild its church entirely in the Gothic style, to move the site nine feet northward so that it would face squarely down the centre of dusty, willow-shaded Wall Street...