Word: bedfords
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Henry James O'Brien Bedford-Jones, 48, of Palm Springs, Calif. disguises the fact that he is one of the country's most prolific writers for the pulp press by a variety of pseudonyms. Far harder to conceal is his amazing family. Last March Mrs. Bedford-Jones II found herself in Chicago being sued for $200,000 for alienation of affections by Mrs. Bedford-Jones I. Taking the stand for her stepmother, Daughter Helen Bedford-Jones, 20, testified as follows against her mother...
Last week a new civil war of the Bedford-Joneses was being waged in Liberty, New Masses and newspaper headlines, between big, jovial Mr. Bedford-Jones and his pretty, self-willed daughter Nancy...
Sooner than that Daughter Nancy decided that Author J. G. Shaw was none other than Father Bedford-Jones in a fresh disguise and that he was talking about her. Her counterblast entitled My Father Is a Liar! promptly appeared last week in the Communist magazine, New Masses...
Afraid that he might lose a Canadian general election by seeming too much like President Hoover, Canada's stuffy, rich and pious Premier Richard Bedford Bennett long ago announced a "New Deal" (TIME, Jan. 14). Last week his enemies set out to defeat him for being too much like President Roosevelt. Flaying the New Deal shibboleth of Reform-before-Recovery, the Premier's bitter rival, onetime Canadian Premier William Lyon MacKenzie King launched his Liberal Party's electioneering campaign with a radio speech in which he keynoted "Recovery Ahead of Reform...
...square miles of Prince Edward Island in the Gulf of St. Lawrence can boast that they are the Dominion's most densely populated province. Last week their ballots drove the final provincial nail into the political coffin of Canada's rich & prosperous Conservative Premier Richard Bedford Bennett who is now somewhat less of a national hero than Herbert Hoover...