Word: bennett
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year all Canada has waited for the Hon. Henry Herbert Stevens, pinko-minded Conservative, to set up his own party. Mr. Stevens broke spectacularly with his old friend Premier Richard Bedford Bennett over "The Pamphlet," a Stevens expose of too ruggedly individualistic Canadian business practices (TIME, Nov. 5). Next he meekly accepted Bennett's reproofs, meekly resigned as Bennett's Minister of Trade & Commerce. Last week with elections scarcely two months off, Henry Herbert Stevens at last announced that he was prepared to challenge Canada's two old guard parties, the Conservatives and the Liberals, with...
...thought differently was Prime Minister Richard Bedford Bennett. The portly, pious Herbert Hoover of Canada uprose in the House of Commons to sputter: "There is no intention that this country should offer its surplus of grain at fire-sale prices or throw its surplus on the markets of the world so long as this Government exists." But recognizing that his belated New Dealish Government may go out of existence at the general election next autumn, Prime Minister Bennett added: ''It may well be that other policies may prevail, but they will prevail at the expense of this country...
...withdraw, but her male colleagues would not let her. One of the country's most brilliant crop forecasters, she has worked as a salesgirl in a department store and a stenographer in a Memphis cotton house where she began writing crop reports in 1919. As estimator for James E. Bennett & Co., Mrs. Miller does not rely solely on the reports of her 5,000 agents but travels personally through the grain and cotton belts. (Cotton estimating is one of her specialties.) Last year she covered 40.000 miles. At 34 she is a divorcee, fond of dancing and poker, mother...
...Dysart. This made New Brunswick the fifth of Canada's nine provinces to "turn the Conservatives out." Only the smallest province, Prince Edward Island, which will vote this month, remains Conservative. In Ottawa discouragement among Conservatives was so acute that within the Party there was talk that Mr. Bennett might abruptly retire and put in the field some other Conservative whom Canada's mob had not become accustomed to blame personally for everything from Depression to moths in the clothes closet...
Meanwhile, the mobsters in Canada's relief camps, who have proved to be among the ugliest customers ever supported at their fellow citizens' expense, pressed on with their plans to "march" on Ottawa in motor trucks. Premier Bennett issued appeals to all Canadians of goodwill to oppose this mass trek to demand still more of Canada's taxpayers...