Word: bennett
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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James Francis Thaddeus O'Connor, Comptroller of the Currency, went before the bankers and told them, the names of the two directors who with himself will administer the deposit guarantee law: Walter Joseph Cummings, executive assistant in the Treasury, close friend of William Hartman Woodin, and Elbert G. Bennett, banker of Ogden, Utah. These announcements the polite bankers applauded. And they listened politely when Comptroller O'Connor told them: ''Every depositor has a right to his money. This law makes the theory a fact. It will banish fear in every banker's mind of runs...
...Bennett Balloons...
Attorney General Bennett refused to touch the racketeering investigation, completed the buck-passing cycle by sending the matter back to New York District Attorney Grain, the 73-year-old Tammany appointee who had declined to have anything to do with it in the first place...
Balloons. Seven vast balloons surged at moorings in Curtiss-Wright-Reynolds Field. Seven brace of aeronauts prepared to mount them for a tussle with the winds. A gust ripped the German entry of Fritz von Opel & Erich Deku. The other six rose fulsomely to strive for the James Gordon Bennett Balloon Race trophy...
Observers who watched a middle-aged Italian in blue bedroom slippers, grey sweater, blue serge suit and grey derby hat get into a big Bellanca monoplane at Floyd Bennett Field, Brooklyn, early last Saturday morning, felt that they were witnessing something unusual to the point of eccentricity. General Francesco de Pinedo was taking off alone for Bagdad, 6,300 mi. away. The cockpit of his ship, the Santa Lucia, was a museum of gadgets and curious supplies-eight watches, two colored kites, fishing tackle, a stomach pump to draw liquids from six vacuum bottles, a fresh air mask, a siren...