Word: bennett
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...FIRST To AWAKEN-Granville Hicks with Richard M. Bennett-Modern...
...first considerable work of fiction. It would seem to indicate that when Writer Hicks resigned from the Communist Party last autumn he began to live again. Nicely, almost winningly written, in a sort of First Reader style, and full of sunny, skillful little pen drawings by Collaborator Richard Bennett, the book should fascinate those readers who would just as soon skip the next 100 years if the next 100 years are going to be anything like...
...Joan Bennett has moved from "Green Hell" to "The House Across the Bay," but she still can't do much more than present a very pleasant appearance and some rather poor acting. This latest production of husband Walter Wanger finds her pining away for George "The Mug With a Good Heart" Raft, whom the FBI has sent away for an Alcatraz vacation. Love is present in the form of a quadrangle, but Joan stays loyal to her George; he shows his appreciation by letting himself be shot. Lloyd Nolan, menacing as every, tries to worm his way into Miss Bennett...
...interest at all, usury is a lesser crime today. Most States have laws which permit licensed, bonded small-loan companies to charge interest rates as high as 3½% a month (2½-3% in New York). In the last five years New York State Attorney General John James Bennett Jr. has been going after loan sharks who aren't satisfied even with this. In almost 200 convictions and injunctions he has secured the return of $278,000 to victims. Last week he got another: the biggest modern loan shark he had ever heard...
Today is the last day for receiving essays for the Dante, Sumner, and Bennett Prizes, and is also the last day for receiving theses of candidates for the degree of Ph.D. in 1940, except in the Divisions of Ancient Languages, of Modern Languages, of History, Government, and Economics, and in the Departments of Semitic Languages and History, of Far Eastern Languages, of Fine Arts, of Music, of Sociology, of Philosophy, and of Psychology...