Word: bedford
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Suit was brought in London against Mrs. Alfred Noyes, wife of the poet, by a Mrs. Lillian Westby, who wanted $4,160 for her services in bidding up a rare manuscript, the Bedford Book of Hours, then owned by Mrs. Noyes, in an auction in July, 1929, against an agent for John Pierpont Morgan. The Morgan agent finally bought the manuscript for $165,000. Mrs. Noyes testified that Mrs. Westby simply had acted upon her suggestion that someone start the bidding, that no fee had been stipulated...
...Canadian Government's tariff schedule against U. S. periodicals, viewed with alarm by U. S. publishers and Canadian newsdealers (TIME, June 15), was made even more stringent last week by Premier Richard Bedford Bennett. The original plan, to be effective Sept. 1, imposed a duty of 15? per Ib. on all periodicals other than educational, scientific or religious. The new schedule admits the exempt classification if they contain 20% or less of advertising. Magazines with more than 20% advertising must pay 2? tax per copy; over 30%, 5? per copy. Nearly all magazines entering Canada from...
...BEDFORD FORREST AND His CRITTER COMPANY?Andrew Nelson Lytle?Minton, Balch...
...Nathan Bedford Forrest (1821-77) was no flower of Southern chivalry but a tough offshoot of Tennessee pioneers. He talked like a poor white; it is doubtful if he ever read a book on tactics; but he fought like the devil. Biographer Lytle, strong Forrest partisan, implies that if Forrest's abilities had been recognized in time the western campaign might have had a different outcome. But Forrest's commander was General Braxton Bragg, whom Forrest soon distrusted, finally despised. One day he stamped into Bragg's tent, spoke thus: "You may as well not issue any more orders...
...Author. Andrew Nelson Lytle is one of the group of young literary Southerners (others: Allen Tate, John Crowe Ransom, Lyle Lanier) which is trying to organize an agrarian movement in the South. Author Lytle lives on a farm in north Alabama. Bedford Forrest is his first book...