Word: bennette
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Some 1,400 U. S. and Canadian students cheered the proposal of Professor Samuel Ralph Harlow of Smith College that President Hoover and Premier Bennett each name a student delegate to the League of Nations' disarmament conference. Declared Professor Harlow: "You are the ones who are going to be asked to lay down your lives. ... If you can make war, ought you not to have the right to stop...
...government to administer them, headed by its own fuzzy-haired Tsar, Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis. Tsar Landis and owners of baseball clubs had good reason last week to sigh a big sigh of relief when they learned that, by withdrawing an action known as "The Bennett Case" from the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago. Club-owner Philip De Catesby Ball of the St. Louis "Browns" had spared them the necessity of testing one of baseball's major "laws" before the U. S. Supreme Court...
...Bennett case had its roots in an antipathy between Tsar Landis and Club-owner Ball. A close friend of the late Byron Bancroft ("Ban") Johnson, Mr. Ball objected strongly in 1921 when Mr. Johnson and the other two members of the National Commission were deposed to make room for the Advisory Council, headed by Tsar Landis. A few years later he saw what he thought was a chance to settle a grudge. A mediocre outfielder named Fred Bennett, on whose services the St. Louis Club held a contract (which, like every player's contract, gave Club-owner Ball...
Long before last week, the Bennett Case, rarely discussed" on sports pages, had become a cause celebre. Clubowners were afraid that, if the matter reached the U. S. Supreme Court, the fundamental rule of baseball, which makes players chattels of clubowners, would be found illegal. If illegal, any player dissatisfied with his contract could desert his job, negotiate for employment elsewhere. Under these circumstances, rich clubs could buy up all the best players, organized baseball would soon fall to pieces...
Engaged. Joan Bennett, 20, film actress; and Gene Markey, 36, scenarist and writer...