Word: bennett
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...PARRIES COMMENT ON BENNETT...
...last Franklin Roosevelt saved his quip of the day, the question of John J. Bennett's nomination in New York. The Chief picked up a newspaper, read therefrom Columnist Mark Sullivan's remarks about a press conference with Under Secretary of War Bob Patterson: "Mr. Patterson said merely that he had no worthwhile comment. If Mr. Patterson has no copyright on those four short words, 'no worth-while comment,' they could be advantageously used by some other Washington officials who face press conferences...
This time there was no harmony, no happy chitchat. Big Jim Farley, who had never come away from such a dinner the loser, was dead set on Attorney General John J. ("Jack") Bennett. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, President and leader of the Democratic Party, was dead set on Senator James M. Mead. Farley had the votes-promised by men who never yet broke a promise to Big Jim. The White House had the influence, the pressure, the big stick that local politicos hate to stand against...
...never made a prophecy more sincere during all these years than the one I am making today-that is that Attorney General John J. Bennett Jr. of Brooklyn will be nominated in Brooklyn next week and will be elected Governor in the election next November...
...Ford plants workmen complain about the food concessions. They say sandwiches are inedible, milk dirty, and say that Ford's tough, union-hating Harry Bennett, who controls the concessions, passes them out to his friends...