Word: bennette
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this charge, had heard the Federal attorney name names. Last week it reported that Mr. Medalie "frankly said he had no evidence of crime against any person but did mention certain matters he thought might be further investigated." That further investigation the jury passed on to State Attorney General Bennett, good Brooklyn Democrat...
Rather than draw a new banking act under such circumstances, Canada's conservative Premier Bennett got the Canadian Parliament before the end of its record 7½-month session to renew Canadian bank charters for one year, postpone a new banking law until next session. He promised during the Parliamentary recess to have a special commission study Canada's banking, currency and coinage. Last week that commission was at work in Western Canada...
...hearings were Canada's equivalent of the U.S. Senate's bank investigating show, but they promised to be a far different kind of affair. After Parliament adjourned in May Premier Bennett, rich and pious Anglophile, often mentioned as candidate for a British peerage, was in London at the Economic Conference. There he got a famed Scotsman to head his banking commission: Hugh Pattison MacMillan, Baron of Aberfeldy...
...maintain them at the level thus reached with as much stability as can be managed.'' It discussed (and rejected) devaluation of currencies; it advocated reducing the legal gold reserves of central banks-all this two years before the U.S. began to consider such proposals. In England Premier Bennett induced the author of "The MacMillan Report" to give up his summer holiday, spend two months examining Canada's banking system. For a second member of his commission Mr. Bennett got another son of a Scottish parson. Sir Charles Addis, former director of the Bank of England, former vice...
...with some reason. Other U.S. businessmen who fearful of inflation, talk of moving to less experimental Canada would do well to wait and watch. As Lord MacMillan and his colleagues last week found in the Canadian Northwest, economic radicalism is not dead in Canada. With or without conservative Premier Bennett in power, a Canadian "new deal" may be successfully agitated, with a national recovery act like NRA to speed things...