Word: bedford
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...safe from one another. Unbridled drinking and mating, suicides, a war between natives and whites, between women and men, left alive one man, a handful of women, 25 children. After that the little colony turned over a new leaf and feared God. They were found by a New Bedford whaler in 1808, were not molested. By 1855 the colony numbered 175 souls. Fearing a water shortage, they persuaded the British Government to move them to a larger island. A few were unhappy there and returned to Pitcairn. There they and their descendants have lived in peace ever since...
Significance. Canada's Dole-hungry proletariat has just terrified Canada's rich, pious and Conservative Premier Richard Bedford Bennett (a personal friend of King George) into turning his political coat, emerging as a New Deal radical (TIME, Jan. 14). Just how frightened were the Conservative leaders of National Government in London last week? They were not frightened. Neither was the average British Islander. In tradition, which Canada lacks, Britain is strong. Part of that tradition is that she is ruled by "The Families"; that even great pieces of Socialism like the Dole will be administered by gentlemen...
...Speech, as everyone knows, is written by the Premier. What followed was a burst of demagogery from the Throne- i. e. from hard-pressed Canadian Premier Richard Bedford Bennett who is trying to escape the fate of Herbert Hoover by a lightning change from his accustomed conservatism to Roosevelt newdealism (TIME...
...your issue of Dec. 31, you published an alleged account of the trial of E. K. Harris, a Negro, on a charge of rape, in the Circuit Court of Bedford County, Tenn...
...greatly deplored that the Court House was burned, as well as the Government trucks; but the records in the Court House were not burned, as charged in the article, and this, it is not believed here, was done by Bedford County citizens; but was the result of a communistic spirit that has been cropping out in this section; but supposed to be by men coming in here to obtain work in the various mills and factories from the hot beds of communism, now existing in some of the Northern States, namely, New York City and Chicago. These Northern cities, where...