Word: bedford
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Elsa M. Corney is a lady of Fairhaven, Mass, (near New Bedford) who used to live in The Beeches, Northampton, Mass. Until she sold The Beeches to Calvin Coolidge, hers was a peaceful life. Last week she told a New Bedford newsgatherer what happened to her after the Coolidges came into her life. She was "a marked woman . . . shaken and wretched." Returning to The Beeches from her first conference with Mr. Coolidge, she found 18 photographers on the grounds taking pictures. Because she feared a public auction would attract swarms of souvenir-seekers she had to sell $5,000 worth...
When the white whale left, some observers thought it had headed up-coast toward New Bedford, whale-conscious Massachusetts town. Others thought it went across Narragansett Bay toward Block Island. Fanciful New Englanders said it might be the ghost of famed Moby Dick, returning to visit the region which he and Author Herman Melville put into literature. Whale-wise salts declared the creature was moping, as if it were sick...
This year more than customary interest has been taken in this Freshman organization. Already the clubs have performed at the Union, at Tabor Academy, and at the Bedford Hospital for Veterans. Besides this Brattle Hall concert, the first year music makers will appear at the Freshman Jubilee to entertain the rest of the class during the supper dance. Saturday's program has been specially arranged, and contains several new numbers which have been worked up by the various leaders...
...Dominion Parliament by bringing in a budget the chief feature of which was 500 tariff changes, the whole so controversial that it seems likely to be much modified before being voted and submitted for the rubber stamp of Royalty. In a fiery speech against the bill Leader Richard Bedford Bennett of the Conservative opposition accused Mr. Dunning of attempting reprisals against the new U. S. tariff (TIME, March 31), and thereby endangering international friendly relations. After a brief, preliminary survey of the voluminous measure, experts guessed that, whereas the tariff passed by Congress is expected...
Last Monday the first year men travelled to Bedford, where they entertained inmates of the Veterans' Hospital. Tuesday evening found them at the Freshman Smoker, providing musical entertainment for this annual get together. Besides these concerts and the one scheduled for tomorrow night, the Clubs will make two more appearances this year, both of which will be in Cambridge. The general public concert will be held in Battle Hall sometime in May, while the last concert of the year will be on May 29; when the musicians will assist at the Freshman Jubilee to give a night club touch...