Word: bedford
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Freshman class were announced yesterday. These nominations were made by petitions of twenty-five or more members of the Class of 1937. The elections will take place Tuesday and Wednesday at lunch and supper in the Union. The additional nominees are: For President, John David Barnes of New Bedford; for Secretary-Treasurer: Bruce Ormsby Bliven, Jr. of New York City, Harvey McClary Dawson of Washington, D.C., Richard Frederick French of Braintree, and Anthony Samuel Joseph Tomasello of Jamaica Plain...
Same day in Canada, where seizure of private property is repugnant to every Methodist fibre of rich and pious Premier Richard Bedford Bennett, the project of reducing the gold content of the Canadian dollar-without confiscation-became an active issue in the Dominion Press. Usually well posted, Toronto's Globe said that Premier Bennett was expected shortly to ask Parliament to devalue the Canadian dollar...
...coarse & hearty Mr. William Lyon Mackenzie King, has taken the line that it is un-Canadian to lick the Royal hand for honors. Not until 1930 did Canada's pendulum swing back. When Mr. King was ousted at last by rich, pious, Conservative and lord-loving Premier Richard Bedford Bennett, the set in Canadian opinion against Royal honors was so stiff that it has taken Mr. Bennett (a personal friend of the King) nearly three years to make up his mind to chip...
...second concert of the season, their first appearance being at Governor Dummer Academy last Saturday evening. They will play at Phillips Academy, Andover, next Saturday evening, while further concerts will be given on Thursday, December 21, and Friday, December 22, for the Harvard Clubs of New Bedford and Rhode Island, respectively...
Because she admires rich, pious Conservative Canadian Premier Richard Bedford Bennett as much as she despises poor, pious Pacifist Prime Minister MacDonald, Lady Houston picked a likely horse last year, named him "R. B. Bennett" and had the satisfaction of seeing him win the North Derby at Newcastle. Last week in her large fore-cabin aboard The Liberty she haughtily received the manager of London's Saturday Review, which she owns. Cringingly he told her that the leading wholesale newsdealers of Great Britain, on advice of their solicitors, had refused to distribute the next copy of the Saturday Review...