Word: bennett
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Senate. In the Senate the stampede was started by sly, fleshy Bennett Champ Clark of Missouri. A Democrat, son of a great Democrat, but also an American Legion founder, Senator Clark had fought the President tooth & nail on the Economy Bill, which cut veterans' pensions, at the special session. He now prepared to discomfit the President by introducing an amendment to the liquor tax bill providing an extra excise on wines & liquors imported from War debt defaulting nations. Leaping at the chance to sound off on their pet hate, debt defaulters. Senate Democrats and Republicans alike began to line...
...promptly plumped against the St. Lawrence waterway lest it give North Central Farmers an advantage in world trade and reduce tonnage down the Mississippi to the Gulf and to Europe. "Presidents Wilson, Harding and Coolidge did not favor the internationalization of Lake Michigan!" stormed Missouri's young Senator Bennett Champ Clark...
Moulin Rouge (20th Century) is a sketchy compendium of familiar musicom edy patterns. Like Dancing Lady it is a backstage romance. Its show-within-a-show suggests Forty-Second Street. For plot, Moulin Rouge performs the remarkable feat of superimposing two of the dustiest of formulas. Constance Bennett, as a singer who gets a chance to star, surprises one & all by being good. Likewise she completely deceives everyone by assuming the flimsiest sort of disguise. She wishes to impress her songwriting husband (Franchot Tone) and a producer (Tullio Carminati) but does not succeed until she changes places with a Parisian...
...hearty Mr. William Lyon Mackenzie King, has taken the line that it is un-Canadian to lick the Royal hand for honors. Not until 1930 did Canada's pendulum swing back. When Mr. King was ousted at last by rich, pious, Conservative and lord-loving Premier Richard Bedford Bennett, the set in Canadian opinion against Royal honors was so stiff that it has taken Mr. Bennett (a personal friend of the King) nearly three years to make up his mind to chip...
...chipping last week was cautious. George V conferred on Premier Bennett nothing, bestowed a minor knighthood on Chief Justice Joseph Matthias Tellier of King's Bench, Quebec and made a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St. Michael & St. George out of Chief Justice Lyman Poore Duff of Canada's Supreme Court. To 32 Canadian women he gave the Order of the British Empire for their good and charitable works. Snapped ex-Premier King, now Leader of His Majesty's Loyal Opposition at Ottawa: "An attempt to create in Canada a social order based on titular...