Word: bennette
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mister, or rather Monsieur. Roy saw to it that Mr. Bennett (no Monsieur he) was banqueted first by the French National Association for Economic Expansion, then officially by Minister of Commerce Pierre Etienne Flandin, famed for his philippics against the U. S. tariff. With his usual candor Mr. Bennett said that what he was after was French orders for Canada's surplus wheat, and rumors were not long in growing that what M. Flandin was after was Canadian orders for French surplus wine. In recent years the French have shown a tendency to buy more wheat from Canada, less...
Canadian farmers wondered, hoped, that Mr. Bennett had been able to give General Manager McFarland some good reason for saying that he is not going to be a "Liquidator," but rather a Star Statesman. Across a wine-set banquet table Prime Minister Andre Tardieu of France said last week to the World in general and to Prime Minister Bennett of Canada in particular: "Friendship between Canada and France is a long established fact of which there is no question...
Mere words - yet they contrasted strongly with the malaprop tongue-wagging of British Minister of Dominions John Henry Thomas who recently flung in Mr. Bennett's teeth that Great Britain knows Canada is looking out chiefly for herself, that the Mother Country will do the same...
...Politically Canada was a French colony during the whole of the 17th, the greater part of the 18th Century. Socially, linguistically the Province of Quebec is still French. Its conservative votes were the decisive factor in putting Conservative Mr. Bennett into the prime ministry. No Canadian politician is complete until thoroughly grounded in French-Canadian psychology...
...Myron E. Zeller, chief pilot, and Carl Wenzel, chief test mechanic, of Ford Motor's aircraft division. Pilot Zeller flew a Ford to fourth place in the National Reliability Air Tour last September. Mechanic Wenzel was selected to accompany the Ford which Bernt Balchen and the late Floyd Bennett flew to the relief of the transatlantic monoplane Bremen on Greenly Island off Labrador...