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Word: bennette (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...celebrate their new opposition, Presidents Thomas & Martin last week debated whether Harry Bennett, personnel director of Ford Motor Co., contributed to U. A. W.'s split by dangling a phoney agreement in front of Homer Martin. Said Mr. Bennett, at last speaking for himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Two Presidents | 2/6/1939 | See Source »

...executive board session which erupted last week was called primarily to demand from Homer Martin a report on what he and Harry Bennett, personnel director of Ford Motor Co., were up to together in recent meetings (TIME. Nov. 23, et ante). The Mortimer-Frankensteen faction this week asked a circuit court in Detroit to restrain Homer Martin from consummating an "illegal conspiracy" with Ford "to disrupt the union and establish a company-dominated fake. . . .:' Messrs. Frankensteen and Mortimer suspected that a deal was in the making whereby canny Mr. Bennett would deliver 100,000-odd Ford workers (and union...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Showdown | 1/30/1939 | See Source »

Last week Ward Culver, attorney for an organization of Ford workers called the Liberty Legion of America, Inc., announced its dissolution "as an independent labor organization" and attributed the action to talks between Martin & Bennett. Garrulous Homer Martin was said to have gushed in private that Ford would be glad to set him up at the head of a union, perhaps confined to Ford workers and unaffiliated with C. I. O. Henceforth Mr. Harry Bennett, whether he made himself so or was made so by the factionalists. may have to be taken into account as a big figure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Showdown | 1/30/1939 | See Source »

Trade Winds (Fredric March, Joan Bennett, Ralph Bellamy; TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Also Showing | 1/30/1939 | See Source »

Trade Winds (Fredric March, Joan Bennett, Ralph Bellamy; TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Also Showing | 1/23/1939 | See Source »

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