Word: bennett
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other young men of similar ages, backgrounds, prospective vo cations, acquired the rating and emoluments ($114 per month, with allowances) of second-class seamen, U. S. Navy. They slept in double-decker beds, jammed to gether in the neat, small Naval Air Reserve Station at Brooklyn's Floyd Bennett Airport. They stepped to the commands of a leathery Marine Corps sergeant. They scrubbed, greased, cranked, shoved, other wise manhandled a yellow Navy training plane, performed such other menial tasks as their sergeant required...
They were delighted to. If they survive a month of elimination training at Floyd Bennett, they will become cadets and learn to fly for the U. S. Navy at its great Pensacola Training Station. In the mean time they will have received ten hours of dual flight instruction, will get doused with water after they solo. If they then survive seven and a half months at Pensacola, they will acquire the Navy's wings of gold, the rank of ensign, monthly pay of $125 to $205. Then all they will have to do is keep their wings clean...
Pensacola is now geared to take 150 a month (Floyd Bennett alone has 200 on its waiting list). With $45,000,000 to spend on new training facilities, the Navy by mid-1941 expects to have Pensacola up to 300 a month; a new, $25,000,000 station at Corpus Christi, Tex. up to another 300; a station at Jacksonville...
Missouri last week held a Senatorial primary as sizzling as the weather, as stubborn as a Missouri mule, as mixed-up as a mule's parentage. Senator Bennett Champ Clark stuck his reddish nose into it by stumping for Senator Harry S. Truman, elected six years ago by Kansas City's Boss Pendergast. It was evident that Bennett Clark did not enjoy backing Truman so much as he loved clapperclawing Truman's rival-stiff, Roman-nosed Governor Lloyd Crow Stark. Also to the aid of New Dealer Truman went New Deal Wheelhorse Alben Barkley...
...labor it by: 1) bringing in a U. S. newshawk (Lloyd Nolan) to act as a sort of male Dorothy Thompson; 2) making her husband (Francis Lederer) not only a Nazi but a philanderer. The Man I Married will remain notable for one monumentally silly line. When Miss Bennett finally walks out on her Hitler-happy husband, she sticks out her right arm, shrills: "Heil, heel...