Word: bennett
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Senator Bennett Champ Clark of Missouri got the Burke-Wadsworth Bill amended to provide that conscripts may vote "if entitled to by State laws." But under the Constitution the States determine the qualifications of voters. There are 48 different State laws on the subject, and six States-Kentucky, Maryland, Mississippi, New Jersey, New Mexico, Pennsylvania-make no provision for absentee voting. The Army's Judge Advocate General says that in 29 States soldiers and sailors are barred from the polls...
Last week the Coward series began its second hitch at El Capitan, with Rosalind Russell and Herbert Marshall in Still Life, Claire Trevor in Family Album. Judith Anderson in Hands Across the Sea. Binnie Barnes in Red Peppers. Not so good were Constance Bennett and Douglas Fairbanks Jr. in We Were Dancing. After watching his daughter go through her paces, Richard Bennett testily observed: "Connie was born an amateur, she always has been an amateur, and still is an amateur." Another amateur, Elsa Maxwell, giggled through Ways and Means, displaying her broad beam in a series of startling stoops...
...over. Wanger paid Dieterle $50,000, started over again with two MARCH OF TIME radio scripters to tell the story in MOT fashion, then switched back to Sheean. After Hitler invaded Poland, Wanger dumped everything into the capacious lap of Director Alfred Hitchcock. He, together with Charles Bennett, James Hilton, Robert Benchley and Ben Hecht, evolved Foreign Correspondent. Fourteen writers and $1,500,000 away from Personal History, it has nothing to do with Sheean and is easily one of the year's finest pictures...
...Base now under construction at Chicopee Falls, Mass, (just north of Springfield). Farther south, on Long Island, is the Army's Mitchel Field, seat of the Air Defense Command. Through the whole northeast are scores of fields, ranging from New York City's LaGuardia and Floyd Bennett to emergency stops on the airline runs, from which Army aircraft could operate in a pinch. With Canada's cooperation, the use of Canadian fields would also be available. The second defense of the U. S. would be a big enough air force to cripple the invader's bases...
...Navy is finicky about its pilot material. Of 800 who applied last June at the Floyd Bennett Station, only 400 were seriously considered, only 70 finally got on the waiting list. These had to be between 20 and 27, have at least two years at an accredited college, be sound in wind...