Word: bennette
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have or would have considered entering politics, Mrs. Reid's reputation as a great lady of U. S. diplomacy and public affairs had scarcely begun. She took over her husband's paper, watched it jealously. Tribune men give her full credit for the acquisition of James Gordon Bennett's and Frank Munsey's Herald. She refinanced the unprofitable Paris Herald, made it pay. She helped found a sanatorium and nurses' training school at Saranac Lake, N. Y., a hospital (St. Luke's) in San Francisco, another at San Mateo, Calif, in memory...
...assault released a torrent of indignation in Greene County, whose citizenry foresaw that its nest of city rats was about to ruin the summer tourist trade. Thereupon, Governor Roosevelt, preparing to sail for Paris to visit his aged mother who is ill with influenza, appointed Attorney General John James Bennett Jr. to supersede the local prosecutor, clean up the Catskill's gangster colony...
...stranger to the ways of city hoodlums, Attorney General Bennett likes to remind people that he was born in the Red Hook section of Brooklyn. Mild of manner, blond, well set up, he made precedent last autumn by getting himself elected to the State's chief legal post. Not only is he one of the youngest (37) to hold the office, but the first Democrat in eight years. In 1918 he emerged from the Army a pursuit pilot, although he never got to France. While working for J. P. Morgan & Co., he studied law at night school, was not admitted...
...things began humming. Two Diamond henchmen were arrested; the Acra house was raided. Attorney General Benne.lt dug up another assault charge against the racketeer, found weapons in his automobile. With these counts, a previous conviction for burglary and an old sentence for deserting the Army against Diamond, Attorney General Bennett hopes to send him to jail under the Baumes Law for life as a fourth offender...
...Hennessey IL, member of last year's relay team, beat G. F. Bennett 33 to the tape in the century sprint, with a time of 10 3-5 seconds. Other graduate wins were in the field events; B. B. Smith IG.Ed., former Oxford vaulter who has been practicing with the track squad on Soldiers Field during the season, tied for first place with H. M. Howe '34, who was aided with a two-foot handicap; a 4-inch booster gave G. W. Larsen 2G a height of 6 ft., 1 1-2 in. in the high jump...