Word: bennett
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Their leader, a sun-bitten, hard-faced Australian named Henry Gordon Bennett, who will have to move his men fast, moved fast as a man. At 16, after attending a small suburban Melbourne school, Henry Gordon Bennett went to work as an office boy in an insurance firm. At 19 he joined the militia reserve. At 26 he was a colonel. At 28 he went to France to fight in World War I. At 29 he was a Brigadier. Before World War II, as a businessman-reservist, he wrote a sharp series of articles attacking the Australian General Staff...
Sending his troops into action last week, Major General Bennett told them: "Our job is not only to delay the Jap, but also to destroy him." His Aussies rushed right out and destroyed 20 enemy tanks, ten armored cars...
...Essential. But as the week ended, it seemed that General Bennett would be hard put to keep his promises, his men to hold their ground. Where his line rested in the jungle was a secret. But the Japanese announced that they had already cracked it, forced the British to admit that they had driven across the Muar River only 100 miles north of Singapore. Furthermore the Japanese, by cutting across the narrow gooseneck above Malaya into Burma, dampened the Aussies' hopes that the Jap rear might be harassed...
...first feature, "Confirm or Deny," presents Don Ameche bringing history up to date as a reporter during the air attack on London of September, 1940. Joan Bennett is pleasant, and the romance is discreetly played down...
...only truces were political expediencies. In the House, Republicans Fish, Tinkham and Mundt gathered enough strength from their own party and from anti-Roosevelt Democrats to harass and threaten every Presidential move. In the Senate, Wheeler, Bennett Clark, Taft and Nye did the same, with similar hybrid cohorts...