Word: bennett
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First boat--Stroke, Meyer; 7, Evans; 6, Bainbridge; 5, Benchley; 4, Scott, P. L.; 3, Scott, R. L.; 2, Hamill; Bow, Leighton; Cox, Valentine. Second boat--Stroke, McClennan; 7, Sargent; 6, Hickox; 5, Browne, S. D.; 4, Horner; 3, Lewis; 2, Ogilby; Bow, Davis; Cox, Gitt. Third boat--Stroke, Bennett; 7, Ware; 6, Lambert; 5, Brown, W. H.; Kernan, R.; 3, Lawrence; 2, Marshall; Bow, Kernan, H. Cox, Boyd...
...Pamphlet enraged businessmen and rich, pious Premier Richard Bedford Bennett but it has the wild approval of Canada's masses. In fear of them Premier Bennett took no steps to discipline his Minister, sailed for Geneva to attend the League of Nations. Emotional Mr. Stevens again called himself "Conservative,'' ignored suggestions that he lead a poor man's rebellion against the Conservative Party chiefs. Last week Premier Bennett was back in Ottawa and Minister Stevens found that he could no longer outface the intolerable situation The Pamphlet had put him into. He resigned as Minister...
Since no active Cabinet Minister has resigned in Canada for 17 years, the sensation was terrific. Meekly, however, well-meaning Crusader Stevens accepted an urbane, eleven-page letter from Premier Bennett, thanking him for good work, chiding him for The Pamphlet: "Circulation of such statements was injurious not only to individuals and business institutions aggrieved thereby but also to yourself...
...Grays Hall, Hugh P. Shaw; Hollis, John Roosevelt; Holworthy, John Gardiner; Lionel and Mower, George Meyer; Little Hall, C. Russell Allen; Massachusetts, Robert C. Downes; Matthews, Malcolm McVickar and Edward F. Whitney; Stoughton, Joseph Kennedy; Straus, Herbert Kibbrick; Thayer, Monroo Ludden and A. Judson Wells, Jr.; Union, Josiah Bennett; Wigglesworth, George Roberts and F. Skiddy vonStade; Weld, William H. Bowen and Albert Stickney...
...inability to make the most of sightseeing, apropos of a visit to India, he exclaims: "How did a closer acquaintance with elephants really profit me? What did I get out of it? Only that which I noted involuntarily: the elephants had a womanly walk which reminded me of Arnold Bennett...