Word: bennett
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...three treatments, plus $5 a week for succeeding ones. Since he treated thousands of patients annually, investigators estimate he grossed about $500,000. On the Foundation's original Board of Directors were such personages as the late Samuel Untermeyer, Amos Pinchot, Colonel Joseph Hartfield. According to Attorney General Bennett, the raid was inspired by "much whispering in high social and entertainment circles." Said he: "A number of internationally known men and women have attended the clinics of the Body & Mind Foundation, and their subsequent conduct caused great distress to members of their families...
...last week the Guggenheim Foundation, awarding 82 fellowships for the coming year, found it necessary to warn its fellows that this is a year when leisure cannot be guaranteed; its awards are subject to interruption for calls to Government service. Example: Stanford University's Dr. Merrill Kelley Bennett, who went to Honolulu last summer as a Guggenheim fellow to study food, wound up as a statistician in the Food Control office, keeping tabs on Hawaii's food supply...
Globe started as Bennett Aircraft Corp. in March 1940, but Backer Frank Bennett was bought out ten months later. The company has an authorized capital of $350,000 and smart, Scottish-born John Kennedy as president. Kennedy went to Texas during World War I, picked up a reputation as an amateur boxer, made money in chemicals, vaccines, livestock. He set up Globe with the help and cheers of the local Chamber of Commerce. Its plant was a 50-by-300-ft. tile and galvanized-iron barn built for Kennedy's string of show horses. Its intended product...
...labor policies; after a strike and a court decision that he had violated the Wagner Act, he signed a contract with the United Automobile Workers last year. But he lost in his own peculiar way: once he had made up his mind, he called in his labor-herder, Harry Bennett, asked what the union wanted. He knew what he wanted. Said Henry Ford: "Why in the hell don't we give it [the union shop and checkoff] to them now and save all that trouble? We've got to get ahead with some work around here...
...Remember, we are the Anzac breed. Our men stormed Gallipoli. They swept through the Libyan Desert. They were the 'Rats of Tobruk.' . . . They were the men who fought under bitter, sarcastic, pugnacious [General Henry] Gordon Bennett down Malaya, and were still fighting when the surrender of Singapore came...