Word: bennett
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hapless Herbert Clark Hoover of Ottawa is Richard Bedford Bennett, a good man, rich, pious, well-meaning, conservative and Premier. Before next autumn at the latest he must fight a Canadian election, and everyone has been saying he must lose for the same reason that Mr. Hoover inevitably lost: the people are sore. Last week Mr. Bennett decided that he would not accept defeat without trying the last refuge of statesmanship, demagoguery. Overnight the leader of Canada's Conservative Party turned such a complete somersault that the Conservative Montreal Gazette said he had "done violence to every Conservative principle...
...series of radio addresses begun last week Conservative Bennett called for "radical reform." "There must be an end," he declared, "to the reckless exploitation of human resources and the trafficking in the health and the happiness of Canadian citizens. There must be an end to the idea that a workman should be held to his labors throughout the daylight hours." Since Mr. Bennett is even richer than Mr. Roosevelt and extremely close to Canada's great Capitalists, the rest of his speech might be said to parallel exactly what has been heard from the White House...
Election prospects revolve around the Conservative Premier, his official opponent Liberal Party Leader William Lyon. MacKenzie King (now in frail health) and the unofficial opposition now rapidly crystallizing around nominal Conservative Henry Stevens, a onetime Bennett henchman who set himself up as hero of the mob with his Philippic against routine Canadian business practice (TIME, Nov. 5). This included violent denunciation of Canadian Woolworth Stores because they cut wages (later raised) at the same time as did U. S. Woolworth Stores, obeying circular orders from company headquarters in Manhattan's Woolworth Building. This Orator Stevens has turned virtually into...
Parliament convenes at Ottawa on Jan. 17. and Premier Bennett last week was obviously making a supreme effort to undercut radical criticism of his steady stewardship by out-pinking the pinks before they get a chance to shout at his Government Bench. Canadian wiseacres, though admitting that Conservative Bennett had turned his coat with fair dexterity and vast vigor, opined that "Depression cooked Bennett's goose and he can't uncook it now." On the other hand Canada has been on the upgrade for at least a year. Exports are up 25%, from 1933, and by next August...
After nosing about London last week the Montreal Star's breezy Correspondent M. H. Hamilton cabled: "Britain is notoriously uninterested in Canadian news, but the complete lack of interest among Press and national leaders I have interviewed over Bennett's volta face is amazing. . . . The London Times, always friendly to Bennett, has the briefest possible outline of his speech and obviously regards it as an election measure of little importance. . . . The Manchester Guardian doesn't mention it. ... I told Wickham Steed [scholarly editor emeritus of the London Times'] that Bennett had attacked individualism in business...