Word: bennett
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Army found out last week that it could not do its housecleaning without raising political dust. Congressional pals of officers whom the Army swept out began to raise dust aplenty. Dustiest squawk came from Missouri's Senators: rabid Isolationist Bennett Clark and obedient New Dealer Harry Truman. The Senators were aroused because Truman's cousin, 61-year-old Major General Ralph E. Truman, credited with saving the 35th Division from a rout at the Argonne Forest in World War I, had been relieved of his field command by Lieut. General Ben Lear, assigned to head the reclassification board...
Last week, while planes dropped flares in Manhattan's North River, parachutists attacked Long Island's Floyd Bennett Field, and mock invaders stormed and took Fort Tilden (near Coney Island), the Information Center moved with precision and dispatch. Its instructions guided the operations of 250 pursuit ships, batteries of 800,000,000-candle-power searchlights, five anti-aircraft regiments. Although at first as much as six minutes elapsed between a flash and the allocation of a disc, the Center soon got its timing close to the 40 seconds which the Army thinks adequate. The Army had high praise...
...helped by one of the slowest and feeblest scripts ever devised. The picture, though it contains eye-filling shots of geese flying north and south, quite fails to put across its theme of the strong man in conflict with nature. Much of the fault may well lie with Joan Bennett, who, as always, is never other than Joan Bennett...
Wood and Pettengill began placing calls, rounding up the anti-Administration members. Some sincere isolationists refused to attend. Among the Senators who came were balding, sobersided Robert Taft of Ohio, red-faced Bennett Champ Clark of Missouri. (Wheeler was out of town, speechmaking...
Significant was the convention's treatment of two men who have been Legion heroes for almost a quarter-century: Missouri's beet-faced, belligerent Senator Bennett Champ Clark, New York's gangling, ham-handed Representative Hamilton Fish, both airtight, waterproof, hermetically sealed Isolationists. Clark, one of the 17 Legion founders and the first permanent Legion chairman, was roundly booed. Fish, who wrote the preamble to the Legion constitution, came to town to make converts, soon gave up and left...