Word: bennett
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Still almost as unpopular as Herbert Hoover, Dominion Premier Richard Bedford Bennett submitted last week to the ultimate indignity in Canada's election campaign (TIME, Aug. 19). His Conservative campaign managers convinced him that the huge posters everywhere reading VOTE BENNETT! are such a liability to the Party that they were ordered changed to VOTE CONSERVATIVE...
Rich and pious Mr. Bennett also was made to realize that it was not wise for a candidate like himself to travel about Canada in his personal private car named Mildred. Overnight Mildred became No. 100. Conservative Bennett created his first campaign sensation by coming out in broadcasts in favor of "controlled inflation," proposing to cure Canadian unemployment and "give youth a chance" by retiring all workers on pensions at 60, and finally vexing his rich friends by promising to issue no more tax-exempt Canadian bonds...
...holds his House of Commons seat from Alberta, made a Federal loan of $2,500,000 to that Province's newly-victorious Social Credit Premier William Aberhart (TIME, Sept. 2 & 16). Such seemed to be the price charged by Social Crediteers for withholding their attacks from Mr. Bennett personally in the election. Other provinces of Canada's West simultaneously ganged up for loans on the Federal Premier who finally approved last week provincial loans totaling...
Assuming that Conservative Bennett will be defeated, traditional Canadian politics would turn up as victor the rival Liberal Party's genial boss, onetime Canadian Premier William Lyon Mackenzie King who last week was having posters printed with the slogan KING OR CHAOS! Actually the electorate showed signs of splitting to candidates of minor radical parties such as normally would give Canada's old guard Conservatives and Liberals no worries whatever. Ominous was a remark by Liberal Mitchell ("Mitch") Hepburn, who upset Ontario's entrenched Conservatives and became Premier (TIME, July 2, 1934). On a national electioneering swing...
With proposals like this being made to Canada's eager West by persuasive votegetters, Premier Bennett, his back to the wall, cried out to fellow citizens over the radio: "You are being told of rare economic creations for which, perhaps, we cannot find a name-something never seen before on land or sea! . . . Zealots who obscurely think the printing press can take the place of hard work and thrift have a lot to say. . . . This is no time for unhelpful condemnation of the plans of our political opponents, and yet . . . my natural restraint breaks down before the clear need...