Word: bennett
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...four wealthy New Yorkers got into an argument over which had the finest yacht. Upshot was the first ocean race, across the Atlantic from Sandy Hook to the Isle of Wight for a pot of $90,000 between Pierre Lorillard's 105-ft. Vesta, James Gordon Bennett Jr.'s 107-ft. Henrietta and the 106-ft. Fleetwing of George & Franklin Osgood. Choosing December as the windiest month, these three schooners set off with professional crews, many a misgiving in a rising wind. Vesta and Henrietta had their cockpits boarded over but not Fleetwing. On the eighth day, wallowing...
Like the U. S., Canada is a confederation. Its constitution, the British North America Act, 1867, apportions governing authority between the Federal and Provincial Governments. During Depression, Canada was also given a New Deal, hastily fabricated in 1934-35 by Canada's Conservative Prime Minister Richard Bedford Bennett in a last-minute attempt to escape the tag of "Canada's Hoover," stand forth as "Canada's Roosevelt." This attempt failed. Prime Minister Bennett thereupon ignored his own New Deal legislation, lost last October's elections and gave way to Liberal Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King...
Also like the U. S., Canada has a Supreme Court. Last week when the Court tested the constitutionality of eight of Bennett's ten New Deal laws, the Liberal Government of Premier King found itself in the curious position of fighting for its vanquished rivals' abandoned legislative program...
...Democrats this year, as in 1932, selected as their keynoter at the national convention (1 Carter Glass, 2 Alben William Barkley, 3 Bennett Champ Clark, 4 Maury Maverick, 5 Joseph T. Robinson...
...Henry of A. the Wallace leading and Robert candidates A. for the Taft, 2 William Republican E. Borah Presidential and Alfred nomination M. were Landon (1 3 Eugene Talmadge and Lester J. Dickinson, 4 Theodore Roosevelt Jr., and John W Davis, S Hiram Johnson and Bennett Champ Clark...