Word: bennett
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unexciting Canadian with many of Herbert Hoover's virtues is Conservative Premier Richard Bedford Bennett who, knowing that a fate like the U. S. ex-President's probably awaits him at Canada's next general election this year, has excitedly improvised a species of New Deal (TIME, Jan. 14). Last week in the Province of New Brunswick came a preliminary test. If the Conservative Premier's New Deal was catching on with Canada's masses, Mr. Bennett could hope that when New Brunswick elected its provincial legislature Conservative New Brunswick Premier Leonard Percy de Wolfe...
Fortnight ago in a stifling Manhattan courtroom the fight began in earnest. The Government described ASCAP as a gigantic music trust, unreasonably suppressing free competition in interstate commerce. Prosecutor Andrew W. Bennett made ASCAP seem exceedingly high-handed by showing that its general 5% license fee preyed even upon non-musical programs, that ASCAP collected 5?out of every $1 that broadcasters received for Father Coughlin's preachings. "Oppressive" again was the way the Society charged an electrical transcription fee ranging from 25? to 50? for each broadcast of a record. ASCAP's defense was that...
...April 1928, the German plane Bremen made the first non-stop westbound flight across the Atlantic, was forced down on remote Greenly Island at the mouth of the frozen St. Lawrence River. Avid for news, the New York World sent Flyers Floyd Bennett, who was half-sick, and Bernt Balchen flying to Greenly Island. They landed at Lake Ste. Agnes near Murray Bay, where Bennett could go no farther. A plane returned him to a hospital in Quebec where he developed a fulminating case of pneumonia. Pneumonia serum available at the Rockefeller Institute in Manhattan might save Floyd Bennett...
...testy irishman entered the telegraph & cable field solely to annoy Jay Gould, who had characteristically crossed him in a business deal. Allied with the equally testy Publisher James Gordon Bennett, who shared his animosity for the sly manipulator of Erie-R. R., John Mackay strenuously laid cables and strung wires to compete with Western Union, then a Gould favorite. The ensuing rate wars were scandalous, but at the founder's death in 1902 the Mackay companies were still a worthy heritage...
Lester Adelson, Robert Amory, Henry Aranow, Jr., Herbert Cyrus Barrows, Jr., Carl Livermore Billman, John Alden Bovey, Jr., Beverly Munford Bowie, Robert Vincent Cleary, John Phillips Coolidge, John Cornell, Edward Alfred Crane, Norman Benjamin Davison, Ernest Fasano, Charles Benjamin Feibleman, Comstock Glaser, Victor Bennett Glunts, Boies Chittenden Hart, Jr., Dayton Wood Hull, Julius Kaplan, Wilfred Kaplan, Thomas Joseph Keary...