Word: bennett
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sirs: THEY HAVE BARBECUED .THE MAN THAT KILLED THE PIG. HARRY M. BENNETT Harlan...
...Democratic Senators have fought Franklin Roosevelt more bitterly than Missouri's mulish, rufous Bennett Champ Clark, who never forgets a grudge. (His oldest grudge: in 1912 young Franklin Roosevelt, 30, helped swing the Democratic convention to Woodrow Wilson and away from the Senator's father, the late Speaker Champ Clark.) Yet Bennett Clark, campaigning for his own third term, swallowed his isolationist line and pledged himself to support Franklin Roosevelt's peace program...
Hospital ships get first priority on everything. Because of this, some shore hospitals' doctors are likely to growl when the hospital ships come around. The Japs sank the Australian hospital ship Centaur last year. But Captain Bennett believes that was a mistake and that hospital ships are relatively safe. After all, the Japs have registered more than 20 hospital ships themselves...
Quitman's reaction to her crusade has ranged from the lethargic to the down right hostile. Lawyer Stanley Bennett, whose two cows grazed on the courthouse lawn, protested that the milk and butter milk produced thereon was vital to the health of Quitman's widows and orphans...
Miss Edna shut him up with a front-page editorial headed "Buttermilk Bennett." Last fortnight Brooks County, of which Quitman is the county seat, was at last persuaded: it passed a law requiring cattle to be fenced. Said Editor Daniel, in quiet triumph: "The farmers are boycotting us now, but they'll get over it." Despite this thumping victory, Miss Edna could not afford to relax. For months she has watched the draft creep up on 50% of her composing-room staff, healthy Frank Ramew, 26 (Frank's father, J. H., is the staff's other half...