Word: bennett
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...twelve men selected are: Harold W. Danser '37, W. Tucker Dean '37, Edward J. Duggan '87, Charles B. Feibleman '86 Bennett Frankel '87, James H. Hallett '87, Powers mcLean '85, Irving R. Murray '86, Hubert H. Nexon '87, Thomas H. Quinn '86. Thomas W. Stephenson '87 and A. Gilman Sullivan...
...advice, "and they'll never find it out." The New York Times was in even worse shape than the Chattanooga paper when Adolph Ochs bought it. It had only 9,000 circulation, owed $300,000 and was losing $1,000 every day. Against it was not only Bennett's Herald but also Pulitzer's World and Hearst's Journal, each trying to outdo the other in yellowness. Then it was that Adolph Ochs introduced to New York the editorial formula which was to shape the journalistic standards of the entire country. With his new-coined slogan...
Canada's Governor-General is named on the advice of the Canadian Premier. King-loving Richard Bedford Bennett would undoubtedly have been delighted to please his King by advising that a King's son be named the next Governor-General. But Canadian elections are coming and Bennett may not be Premier after them. Therefore His Majesty's Government consulted, not only Bennett, but also the leader of the Opposition, Liberal Mackenzie King, who is a good friend of Buchan. King advised strongly against a King...
Based on a story by Charles Bennett and D. B. Wyndham Lewis, The Man Who Knew Too Much starts calmly enough in St. Moritz where Lawrence (Leslie Banks), his wife (Edna Best) and their small daughter (Nova Pilbeam) are performing winter sports. A fellow guest at their hotel is mysteriously shot. Dying, he begs Lawrence to find a code message in his room, deliver it to the British Foreign Office. Lawrence finds the message but before he can deliver it, the assassins have kidnapped his daughter, threatened to kill her if Lawrence carries out his mission...
...Kids and three good songs by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart: "It's Easy to Remember," "Down By the River," "Soon." Fields is at his best in a poker game sequence in which he frantically draws ace after ace when he already holds four. Curiously for cinema, Joan Bennett is cast in a role which requires her to make the initial declaration of love, the first request for a kiss...