Word: bennett
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Wigglesworth E-12--Bennett F. Bule of Patrick, S. C.; Assistant in Geology...
...strange air of mingled respect and disdain, as if striving to find some intellectual justification for the pains and punishments they describe in connection with every battle. Beginning with Homer and ending with Ernest Hemingway, Boxing in Art and Literature includes Hazlitt's famed The Fight, Arnold Bennett's report on Beckett v. Carpentier, Irvin S. Cobb on Carpentier v. Dempsey, 45 illustrations by Eakins, Bellows and 35 others, is essentially a handsome gift book that possesses more literary interest than gift books usually have...
Last December, President Roosevelt announced that State Department studies of neutrality legislation might soon give him something to say on the subject. Four months later the State Department was rudely roused from its studies when Senators Gerald Nye, Bennett Clark & friends, fired with a passion for peace as a result of their investigation of the pipsqueak U. S. munitions business, popped out proposals for mandatory, two-sided embargoes on arms, loans, credits. Panting from White House to Capitol, Secretary of State Hull persuaded President Roosevelt to take a firm stand for discretionary legislation, persuaded the Senate Foreign Relations Committee...
...Lowndes County, Ala. State police last week raided the headquarters of a Negro sharecroppers' union whose striking members had ganged non-union Negro sharecroppers. Police claimed to have found "a pile of Communistic literature." A mob of white farmers mistook Newshawk William Bennett of the Montgomery Advertiser, whose redheaded editor is Julian Hall's Uncle Grover, for a "Red agitator." The mob thoroughly manhandled Bennett before he could identify himself...
...worth $500 per copy as a curiosity. When they lost their jobs in Vienna, the Burnetts took their magazine to the Mediterranean island of Majorca. By 1933 Story had acquired such a patina of prestige that it attracted the attention of three smart literary middlemen of Manhattan, Publishers Bennett ("Beans") Cerf and Donald Klopfer of the Modern Library and Random House and Harry Scherman of the Book-of-the-Month Club...