Word: bennett
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Missouri - a field goal against the New Deal in the renomination of Senator Bennett Champ Clark. This adverse score was light because Senator Clark was not actively fought by Roosevelt & Co., and his two 100% New Deal opponents were worthy political nobodies. The heaviness (400,000 majority) of the vote for Senator Clark, who opposed the Court Plan, Reorganization and other Roosevelt legislation, could be ascribed to his strong Favorite Son position. Comfort for the New Deal could be found in the victory of Judge James M. Douglas of St. Louis, candidate of New Dealish Governor Stark for the State...
...Texans, Scott is found in better company than usual, with Joan Bennett as a belle of post-Civil War Texas, and May Robson as her doting grandmother, for his chief associates. The terrain, however, is far more suitable for coyotes than for foxes, and Cinemactor Scott's closest approach to the atmosphere to which he is accustomed in his private life is supplied by a herd of 10,000 snuffling beef cattle which he and Miss Bennett drive up the Chisholm Trail, from the Rio Grande to Kansas...
While Howard Hughes's great ship was being tuned and stocked at Floyd Bennett Field fortnight ago (see above), a thin broth of a lad named Corrigan poked down out of the air at neighboring Roosevelt Field in a 1929 Curtiss-Robin monoplane with an old Wright J-6 motor that could turn up only 95 miles an hour. By modern standards the ship was a crate, but in it, with nothing to fly by but a compass, a bit of a map and the beam in his eye, 31-year-old Douglas P. Corrigan of Los Angeles...
Next day, on page three of Frank Brett Noyes's dignified Star appeared a three-column ad headed: TRUTH ALONG WITH SPEED. That picture "in an afternoon paper yesterday," the Star snorted, was not Hughes's plane in Minneapolis but Hughes's plane at Floyd Bennett Field before the takeoff. Proudly the Star reprinted its genuine shot of Hughes in Minneapolis...
When Howard Robard Hughes took off from Floyd Bennett Field last week (see pp. 36, 43) engineers feared that he might be flying out into radio silence. There was sunspot trouble. Only a few-hours before the take-off RCA's mighty Riverhead, L. I., communication station had a complete wipe-out of shortwave signals. The Hughes route (a northern circle notably poor for radio transmission) did not look promising...