Word: bennette
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Richard Bedford Bennett and his political friends marched into Rideau Hall, Ottawa's Government house, last week, shook hands with His Majesty's proxy, Governor-General Viscount Willingdon...
Empire Free Trade. One Briton who rejoiced secretly at the Canadian victory of Conservative Bennett was Conservative Stanley Baldwin. He has been fighting tooth & nail to keep control of his party from the British "Press Lords" Baron Beaverbrook and Viscount Rothermere with their pet policy of Empire free trade (TIME, Dec. 2 et seq). Stanley Baldwin, personally a free trader, was grudgingly forced to accept Empire free trade when popular opinion seemed to demand it. Australia's mountainous tariff and absolute embargoes, conservative Canada's high tariff policy, gave Stanley Baldwin one more chance to declare his independence...
Quebec. Observers found the greatest proof of the strength of Conservative Bennett in the "Miracle of Quebec." Since the War, the French-speaking province of Quebec has been Canada's "Solid South," steadily returning all but a handful of its 65 seats in the Liberal column. Reason for Quebec's Liberalism is Wartime conscription. French Canadians have little desire to die for the dear old Empire, have never forgiven the Conservative party for drafting them into the trenches. Through Montreal's La Presse ran scare headlines last fortnight-MENACE DE CONSCRIPTION, LA CRISE FORMIDABLE ... EN EGYPT...
...with various connections with Mr. Hearst's book publishing, magazines, newspapers. In foreign contacts he will be valuable, for Mr. Doran is an international figure. Famed in London are his professional feasts. He has known how to secure such authors as Sir Arthur Gonan Doyle, Joseph Conrad, Arnold Bennett, Rudyard Kipling, Hugh Walpole, Herbert George Wells, Somerset Maugham, Frank Swinnerton. In the U. S. he has long been known as one of the very best people for very young writers to see. George Doran was never a man to turn away a novel because it was a "first." Consequently...
...fell before her nimble racket, and she was champion. She was popular: she had a nice smile, she was attractive, she had pretty legs. Said a bystander at one of her matches: "Most good players haven't nice legs, have they? Betty's [Nuthall] are thick, and Eileen's [Bennett] are sort of funny, and Helen's [Wills] are wonky. But Florence has just lovely legs...