Word: bennett
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...team suffered a let-down when it tackled the Big Green on Saturday night; watching them gave one the definite impression that they were overconfident. They tried hard, but they just couldn't seem to click. Added to this, the sterling defensive play of Don Otis and football captain Bennett helped the Dartmouth team keep the score down and give Harvard's rooters an unpleasant scare...
...Otis, Bennett Stand...
...five major sports captains besides Gaffney and Ford, are Thomas H. Bilodeau '37, captain of the baseball team; William H. Schmidt '37, captain of the track team; and Edward H. Bennett '37, captain of the crew...
...That year Young Jim's training for the succession began in earnest. Beginning to tire of 500 conferences per day, Big Boss Tom kept his nephew at his elbow, left him holding the reins when he went off vacationing. Running against the son of another famed Democrat, Bennett Champ Clark, Young Jim was elected president of Missouri's Young Democrats.* The heir-apparent got his first big test last June when, at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, Uncle Tom fell seriously ill of an intestinal ailment, was hospitalized. Young Jim, a platform committeeman at the Convention, went...
...Last week Bennett Clark, now a U. S. Senator, was prematurely boomed for the 1940 Democratic Presidential nomination by Boss Tom Pendergast. By way of modest acknowledgment, the plump young Senator related an anecdote of his late great father and that statesman's predecessor as Speaker of the House. Thomas B. ("Tsar") Reed. When Speaker Reed was contesting with William McKinley for the GOPresidential nomination in 1896, Congressman Clark met him one day, asked: "Mr. Speaker, are you going to get the nomination?" Replied Reed: "Why, Champ, I think they might go farther and fare worse, and I think...