Word: bedfords
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Charles E. Bedford Jr., 30, son of Vice President Bedford of the Vacuum Oil Co.; by his own hand, in a dollar-a-night Brooklyn hotel. When only 19, Bedford came home from the War mentally sick. The same year he stole a car to escape from a physician, went to gaol in Indiana, later to a New York asylum from which he ran away. Ashamed to go home, although his family used every possible persuasion, he wandered, hid himself in crowds, spent the past five years in Brooklyn slums...
...Canadian election which turned out Liberal Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King and turned in Conservative Richard Bedford Bennett (TIME, Aug. 11) increased the difficulties of Minister MacNider. Mr. King had been inclined toward a friendly co-operation with the U.S. Prime Minister Bennett's election had been won on an implicitly anti-U. S. platform. MacNider problems...
Congratulations, because so far as I am aware your magazine (TIME, Aug. 4), is the first in America to give full credit to that wonderful runner, A. F. Newton of South Africa. Better late than never. Newton was born within a mile or two of Bedford, England, famous because it was whilst in jail in that town that John Bunyan wrote his Pilgrim's Progress. New to a left England when a youth of 15 to study and take up farming in Rhodesia, South Africa, and as stated never took up running seriously until near 40 years...
...Richard Bedford Bennett and his political friends marched into Rideau Hall, Ottawa's Government house, last week, shook hands with His Majesty's proxy, Governor-General Viscount Willingdon...
With 137 seats out of a possible 245 and a clear majority over all political parties, the Conservative party ousted Canadian Liberals from their nine-year roost fortnight ago. Last week stern-jowled Richard Bedford Bennett, Prime Minister-elect, was cock of the Canadian walk. Editors in Britain and the U. S. sat back to analyze the results...