Word: bennette
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Twenty guests of President & Mrs. Roosevelt, including Comedian Eddie Dowling and Cinemactress Lillian Gish, had dinner at the White House and saw a preview of a film adapted from Arnold Bennett's Buried Alive, featuring Miss Gish. At one point the President remarked: "Eddie, that music is too heavily scored." Mr. Dowling agreed. After the showing an English lady gushed: "I loved it! All those English scenes. I only wonder whether the American public will appreciate its subtle appeal?" "Tut. tut," replied the smiling President. "I'm one of the American mob and I enjoyed it thoroughly...
...Harking to the pleas of Missouri's Governor Park, onetime Governor Caulfield and Senator Bennett Champ Clark, President Roosevelt pardoned Conrad Henry Mann, president of the Kansas City Chamber of Commerce, Republican leader and good friend of Herbert Hoover. Mr. Mann had been convicted of operating a lottery for the Fraternal Order of Eagles in 1930. Another prominent Republican, Senator James John ("Puddler Jim") Davis, was acquitted of a similar charge in connection with a Moose lottery last month. Fat, white-haired Mr. Mann served in Manhattan's Federal House of Detention four hours of his five-month...
...meeting of the Freshman Debating Council yesterday, presided over by Asa E. Phillips '34, President of Varsity Debating, Bennett Frankel '37, and Herbert H. Nexon '37 were elected the council's chairman and secretary, respectively...
...usual last spring, the danger of the banks' situation was suddenly plain. From the Western prairies rose furious anti-banker howls for a new system, for lower interest rates, for "nationalization of credit." Parliament was impressed. To avoid financial confusion when Canada could least afford it, Conservative Premier Bennett got the Parliament to extend bank charters for one year during which he promised to call a commission to study Canada's banking, currency and coinage...
...Finance & Industry. So sound and lucid was it that it became the only Blue Book ever published in Britain to net a profit. Second member of the Commission was another son of a Scottish parson, Sir Charles Addis, onetime director of the Bank of England. These two Scotsmen Premier Bennett balanced with two Canadian bankers, Sir William Thomas White and Beaudry Leman. To give Western Canada a voice he threw in Premier John Edward Brownlee of the Province of Alberta. For two months the Commissioners have inched over the wide Canadian landscape from bank to bank (TIME, Aug. 28). Last...