Word: bennett
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...phrase "Gentleman Jim has won again" meant a pugilist named Corbett. Today it refers to a cagey politician whose last name is Farley. For, in the New York Democratic Convention yesterday, Jim's man won the nomination for Governor hands down. The victory of Attorney General John J. Bennett over Senator James A. Mead sets off a chain of consequences that may tie the political structure of the country into its worst tangle in several decades. Most important of all, it forces a wartime President into the dangerous game of playing politics within his own party...
...Bayliss, W. H. '46, Adams D-13 KIR 7132 Beale, James MacA. '45, Eliot K-51 ELI 1451 Beebe, S. B. R. '43, Adams C-42 ELI 2360 Bemis, W. C. '46, Eliot K-33 ELI 1032 Benton, D. M. D. '44, Leverett A-24 KIR 2096 Bennett, H. C., Jr, '42, 8-10 Nutting Rd., TRO 2492 Benyas, E. C. '44, Dunster I-11 KIR 5956 Beren, S. K. '44, Eliot K-52 KIR 1946 Bigelow, E. L., Jr. '46, Eliot C-21 TRO 6682 Bigelow, W., Jr. '45, Adams A-36 ELI 2212 Binning, E. '46, Winthrop...
...Edwardian and Georgian London. Her first novels, The Voyage Out and Night And Day, were a blotted watercolor of social comedy in Jane Austen's manner and her own brand of lyrical metaphysics. In uneasy, brilliant experiments, in critical essays putting such writers as Joyce and Arnold Bennett in their proper places, Virginia Woolf began to find...
...Farley, once chairman of the New York State Athletic Commission, knows crowds love a fighter who stays in there swinging. Last week Jim Farley, waging a hot & heavy fight to make John J. Bennett the Democratic candidate for Governor of New York, never once stopped punching. Every day he aimed a new blow at Franklin Roosevelt's candidate, tall, toothy Senator Jim Mead...
...this Jim Mead remained silent. Silent too was Farley's John Bennett, the forgotten man of the campaign. The only audible sounds came from Farley-and from Franklin Roosevelt, who once more took a little time out from the war to comment at a crowded press conference: "If Jim Mead's an isolationist...