Word: bennett
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia tried in vain to lure him into the services of the State and City of New York. Having kicked politics out of the antiquated prison system and built 16 model Federal prisons, last week Penologist Bates resigned, turned over his job to his Assistant James V. Bennett, to try his hand at crime prevention as Executive Director of the Boys Clubs of America, Inc.. which has 291 clubs in high-delinquency centres...
Lady Houston expressed in her magazine an uncritical admiration for Benito Mussolini, "the greatest Ruler in the World today," and for Adolf Hitler. To her, neither of these somewhat frightening characters could do wrong, nor could such standpatters as Canada's rich and pious Richard Bedford Bennett, onetime Premier...
...become a fad among rich rural connoisseurs. With only five pairs entered in last year's Poultry Show, a handful of fanciers organized an Ornamental Pheasant Society, set out to advertise their pastime. Chosen president was Philip Morgan ("Phil") Plant, onetime Manhattan playboy and second husband of Constance Bennett, who settled down few years ago to breed bantams and pheasants on his 2,000-acre farm in Waterford, Conn. Vice President was Frank ("Bring 'Em Back Alive") Buck. Last week the Society had some 100 members, exhibited 41 pairs of birds...
...odds the outstanding men on the ice were the Green defensemen, Don Otis and Gordon Bennett, whose thumping bodychecks were a thorn in the side of the Crimson all evening. Football-captain Bennett and his equally husky partner were all too reminiscent of the days of Harvard's Bigelow brothers...
Another big reason for the failure of Coach Joe Stubb's charges to ring up their expected one-sided triumph was the skill and fortune of Les Goding, Coach Herb Gill's star net-minder. If the Crimson did escape a resounding check from Otis or Bennett, it was Goding who turned back a scoring attempt. George Roberts was especially robbed on numerous occasions, had the amazing misfortune to hit the post three times...