Word: bennett
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Anthropology: Judson T. Shaplin; Biology: Benjamin H. Landing. Jr.; Bio-Chemistry: Robert A. Keller; Chemistry: Melvin Fields, Jr.; Classics: Howard C. Bennett...
...five-month-old story last week reached a powerful climax in St. Louis. It began one day last November when ten Missouri Democratic leaders met in secret in a room in St. Louis' De Soto Hotel. Senator Bennett Champ Clark was there from Washington. Eight days before, a Republican, Forrest Donnell, had been elected Governor-in the midst of a Democratic sweep-by 3,613 votes. These politicians were practical men. They discussed a legislative investigation, on the issue of fraudulent ballots, that would prevent Forrest Donnell from taking office. Said a seasoned old country politician: "You will...
...widespread was the Communist taint? Ford's Harry Bennett charged that C.I.O.'s United Auto Workers were Communist-controlled. Mr. Bennett was exaggerating. A Red faction exists in the U.A.W. rank & file, but the union's top officials are definitely antiCommunist. In aircraft, which U.A.W. is also trying to organize, Communists have crept a little higher. U.A.W. President Roland Jay Thomas has ordered the union's new chief aircraft organizer, Richard Frankensteen, to clean the Communists...
Week's end continued the truce, but brought no peace to Ford. Charges flew thick & fast. Ford's Harry Bennett accused leaders of the United Automobile Workers of Communism. Company officials charged that dies and tools needed in aircraft production had been destroyed. To the company charge that defense work was being delayed, the union replied that it was willing to supply men to keep defense work going, but that maintenance men sent inside were manhandled...
...Composer Bennett's opener last fortnight was a "music opera" based upon a fine old U. S. song: The Man on the Flying Trapeze. Throughout the opera, the ballad tune dum-diddled along, festooned with Composer Bennett's shiniest orchestral and harmonic tricks. Best original snatch was sung by a clown: Which way does a young man start when a young man's heart has a well-known dart stuck away down low? Which way does a young girl turn when her arms both yearn and her lips both burn with a well-known glow? Ah, lackaday...