Word: bennett
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There was almost no criticism of the Ruml plan last week except that it was so easy that most people could hardly believe what they heard. Finance Committee Chairman George and Committee Member Bennett Champ Clark were cautiously for it. The Treasury said nothing audible, though some of its experts were worrying over the breaks it gives taxpayers with big incomes in 1941 v. 1942. This Mr. Ruml admitted, but he contended that the benefits to most taxpayers far outweighed the extraordinary (and wholly unforeseen) benefits...
...great concern to the Party which he heads-and never forgets that he heads. Tom Dewey, the apparent Republican nominee, is busily at work. And on the Democratic side crafty Jim Farley had commitments from 51 out of 62 county delegations for his man, Attorney General John J. Bennett Jr. Mr. Roosevelt did not think John Bennett was the man to beat Tom Dewey. He wanted the hottest candidate he could get. Mead seemed to fill the bill. And also at stake is control of the 94 New York delegates to the 1944 Democratic convention...
...Roosevelt plump for Mead meant a battle with Jim Farley, once his closest political friend. It meant kicking the pins from under John Bennett, once a Roosevelt protégé. And big, bald, genial Jim Farley was determined to make this a real fight. After all, he had the delegates (up to now). Within an hour after Jim Mead announced his candidacy, Jim Farley issued a bone-bruising statement. He cited nine occasions on which Jim Mead had said he did not want to be Governor of New York; he said Jim Mead was "scared" of the job, said...
...based on the practical belief that Jim Mead was the only Democrat who could get American Labor Party support, needed to beat Tom Dewey. Jim Mead, with four secure years in the Senate ahead of him, and with at least 50 friends among the 51 bosses committed to Bennett, was cagey. He craftily named his own candidate: Jim Farley...
...picture is a faithful adaptation of Booth Tarkington's 1918 Pulitzer-Prize-winning novel about the effect of U.S. industrialism on the feudal Midwest as embodied in the Ambersons. Founder of this dynasty (in 1873) is sharp-trading Major Amberson (Richard Bennett), who has become so rich that the magnificence of the Ambersons stands out in their little clapboard town like a plaid suit at a funeral. Last and worst of the clan is spoiled, arrogant Grandson George Amberson Minafer (Tim Holt), who gets his deserved "comeuppance" (in 1912) from the new industrialism which his baronial mind can neither...