Word: bennett
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Major General Bennett Meyers, officer and gentleman (with medals), who knew what he was fighting...
...Washington last week, a federal grand jury indicted Major General Bennett E. Meyers for perjury and for suborning Bleriot H. Lamarre (who was also indicted) to give false testimony before the Senate War Investigating Committee (TIME, Dec. 1). Ferreting out crime was not the committee's job, but it could now boast of having brought two major war-purchasing scandals to action in criminal courts. Its other case-that of ex-Congressman Andrew May and the Garsson brothers-had resulted in a conviction. The Government's chief crime-detection and prosecuting agency-the Department of Justice...
Miss Barbara Bennett, regional director of Communist youth activities, stated that the document came from "Party members at Harvard," who have been issuing publications "for many, many years...
...high reigned the Big Four-"The Uncles," Miss West called them in The Strange Necessity. There was Uncle John Galsworthy, Uncle H. G. Wells, Uncle Arnold Bennett and Uncle Bernard Shaw, of whom she now observes: "The trouble with Shaw is that he was a wonderful writer with nothing important to say. It's too bad he couldn't have been a Christian...
...took nine years of study and travel to enable Dyer-Bennett, born a cousin of thirteenth British baronet Swinnerton Dyer, to develop his skill in the long-lost art of minstrelsy. Last summer he established the Dyer-Bennett School of Minstrelsy in Aspen, Colorado...