Word: bennett
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that Prof. Irving Fisher, famed Yale economist, had been blacklisted. Mrs. Fisher was among the Daughters who resigned. Also, Mrs. Henry H. Townsend, a onetime Representative in Connecticut's legislature and Mrs. Josepha Whitney, first woman ever elected to New Haven's board of aldermen. Mrs. Winchester Bennett, a daughter-in-law of the Winchester Repeating Arms family, was another resigner...
...reflect that almost every dead U. S. producer of gay, tinkling dramatics has died without funds. Instead, he reflected that an airplane, driven by Bernt Balchen, had just made a record driving from Staten Island to Detroit; that the airplane was the very one in which the late Floyd Bennett had tried to reach Greenly Island, and that it contained, by a fortunate exception in the regulations made especially for him, Marie Marrifield, one of his dancers, who was hurrying to see a sick sister. Ziggy reflected also that next autumn, in Manhattan, he would have two simultaneous Manhattan productions...
...Detroit, two fliers arose from sickbeds to join in the rescue: Floyd Bennett and Bernt Balchen. At 5 o'clock of a morning they set out in a giant Ford trimotored liner. At Lake Ste. Agnes, Bennett had a fever of 102, could go no further. He was rushed to Quebec, deathly ill of pneumonia. Commander Richard Byrd came to his side; Col. Charles A. Lindbergh made an inspired flight to bring him succor (see MEDICINE, p. 22). Canada suddenly contained a noble percentage of the world's greatest fliers, for by now Clarence D. Chamberlin had joined...
...Bennett died. Threatened by fate a year ago, when he was hurt testing the ship in which Byrd flew across the Atlantic, he was finally struck down. He who had survived the terrors of a flight over the North Pole in 1926, succumbed at the prime of his flying career, at 38. He who was to go with Byrd to the Antarctic this year died in Jeffrey Hale Hospital, Quebec, despite all that science and medicine could...
Died. Floyd Bennett, 37, pilot of the first airplane to fly to the North Pole and back; of pneumonia; at Quebec...