Word: bennett
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Furtwängler, John Barbirolli, Francesco Salfi, Artur Rodzinski, Fritz Reiner. Eugene Goossens of the Cincinnati Symphony had been hired to conduct the world premiere of Don Juan de Manara, a bloodthirsty opera differing widely from Mozart's Don Giovanni, which he had composed for the late Arnold Bennett's libretto. He had succeeded in combining with his own company the Paris Grand Opera and Opéra-Comique. Colonel de Basil's Ballet Russe had been billed to dance. Metropolitan Opera participants included Kirsten Flagstad, Gina Cigna, Kerstin Thorborg, Lauritz Melchior, Lawrence Tibbett, Giovanni Martinelli, John...
...regularly as U. S. tennists once won and later, until this year, lost Davis Cup matches, U. S. balloonists once won and now lose the annual James Gordon Bennett Balloon Race-No. 1 gasbag event of the year. Last year they were too discouraged to enter. Last week, as the 25th James Gordon Bennett Balloon Race got under way in Brussels, there was again no U. S. entry, possibly because the race was suddenly called for June instead of September as in the past. Entered were twelve balloons from five nations. Like monstrous dirty soap bubbles, they drifted up from...
...York's Floyd Bennett Field, Edward Somers, 12-year-old son of Brooklyn Congressman Andrew L. Somers, stepped into an airplane, took off for a 15-min. solo flight, then made a perfect three-point landing. The Bureau of Air Commerce, which prohibits persons under 16 from piloting airplanes, promptly started to investigate and discovered that Edward had an illegal student's permit. While Edward was packed off to his grandfather's, his father, a War pilot, admitted: "Frankly, I tried to get the Air Bureau here to waive the age limit but the Bureau refused...
Died. Mrs. Champ Clark, 82, widow of the late Speaker of the House of Representatives, mother of U. S. Senator Bennett Champ Clark; in New Orleans...
...SCHICK, retired lieutenant colonel in the Army Engineers Corps, invented the Schick electric dry shaver manufactured in New Haven, drew big royalties. In 1933 he formed a Bahama corporation to receive his royalties, thereby making a saving in taxes. In 1935 by special dispensation of his friend Prime Minister Bennett of Canada he became a Canadian citizen, without the customary five years' steady residence. He formed more Bahama companies and transferred a big block of securities to them and could not be stopped in any way from doing so because he was no longer a U. S. citizen...