Word: bennett
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...high hurdles look like a Cornell event except for the competition that Harvard may offer, which will be considerable. Leading the timber-toppers to the start will be Walter Merwin, who won the IC4A title in New York. The other Red and White entries will be Irving and Bennett. However, Harvard has two hurdlers in Johnny and Dick Hayes, who should push Merwin to the limit and perhaps to a new Tri record...
Well into the stormy afternoon three flying officers-George F. McDermott, James H. Rothrock. William S. Pocock Jr. -took off from Floyd Bennett Field, N.Y. for Langley Field, Va. to pick up mail planes. Their amphibian was not in the air ten minutes before it became unmanageable in the stiff wind. They alighted in a heavy sea off Rockaway Point. When a Coast Guard and a Navy destroyer steamed up, the amphibian had drifted off into the dusk. The Navy boat finally picked up the flyers five miles away. Lieut. McDermott had been washed overboard. His exhausted companions were hospitalized...
...from Halifax to Victoria, from North Portal to The Pas, there are only eleven commercial banks. Canadian banking is branch banking in finest flower. But Canada is unique in that it has no central bank of issue, no Federal Reserve, no bankers' bank. Last week Premier Richard Bedford Bennett prepared to give the Dominion a quasi-public institution modeled after the venerable Bank of England...
Conservative Premier Bennett hastily got the Parliament to extend the eleven banks' charters for one year instead of ten in re turn for his promise to call a commission to study Canada's whole banking, currency and coinage system. Head of this com mission, which shuttled all over the Dominion holding public hearings last summer and autumn, was Hugh Pattison Macmillan, Baron of Aberfeldy (TIME. Aug. 28, Nov. 20). For ten years Lord Macmillan had been heading British com missions including the Royal Commission on Lunacy & Mental Disorder and the Home Office Committee on Street Of fences...
Constance Bennett...