Word: bedfords
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Perhaps because he detests gambling, Prime Minister Richard Bedford Bennett, rich & pious, kept the name of the man he had ''advised" George V to appoint Governor General a dead secret. Last week this darkest of horses romped home a winner, sorely vexed Canadian sweepstakers. Darkest horse: Vere Brabazon Ponsonby, 9th Earl of Bessborough...
...spring program this year includes a larger number of engagements than in other seasons. Following the concert at Swampscott on March 14, the Clubs will play at the Harvard Union on March 18. The schedule also includes programs at Exeter on March 22, at New Bedford, March 27, and their final concert at Brookline on April...
...first evening of Canadian Prime Minister Richard Bedford Bennett's "unofficial" three-day visit to Washington was spent in the company of President Hoover, Secretary Stimson and his assistant William R. Castle Jr. Also present: Hanford MacNider, U. S. Minister to Canada. Although no intimation of what was discussed was forthcoming, it was generally assumed that Liquor, Tariff, St. Lawrence River power, and a possible U. S. embargo on Canadian wheat furnished dinner conversation. Only public utterance on Mr. Bennett's visit was made by President Hoover. Said he: "We are mutually interested in the common welfare...
...Pitiful, pitiful," groaned his Honor, Justice Norman S. Dike of the New York Supreme Court. Peering over his glasses he surveyed Lena Burlatt, a girl of 17 who had just come out of New York's repository for wayward females, Bedford Reformatory. He learned that Lena's mother had taken her to court one day 18 months ago, on her 16th birthday. Lena's mother had told the judge that Lena "stayed out late." The judge, Magistrate Leo Healy, had forthwith sentenced Lena to one year in Bedford Reformatory. She had been kept there six months overtime...
Justice Dike told Lena Burlatt that in Bedford Reformatory, well-run though it is, "there are some vicious women, some frightfully vicious women." He advised her to forget anything she had learned there. . . . Then he sent her home with the mother who had committed her at 16 for "staying out late...