Word: bennette
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Prime Ministry made their final campaign speeches one night last week. Bachelor William Lyon MacKenzie King (Liberal) who has been Prime Minister almost uninterruptedly since 1921 spoke at 11 p.m., had the middle word. The first and the last words of the evening were had by Bachelor Richard Bedford Bennett (Conservative) who had never been Prime Minister, ached...
...Million Dollars. Surveying Mr. Bennett as a potent figure who may soon become Prime Minister, he is seen to be courageous, rich and righteous. Born in the Province of New Brunswick, he early showed a passion for industry and recti tude. While other little boys and girls were at play, he read and later studied. Today at 60, though he can be genial, he has not yet learned to play...
Graduated by Dalhousie University, Mr. Bennett was called to the Canadian bar in 1903, rose steadily as a corporation lawyer, became in time counsel for Canadian Pacific Railways and Hudson's Bay Co. Having thus reached the top of his profession, he argued for these two world-potent clients before the highest Empire court, the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in London...
Oddly enough a major portion of Lawyer Bennett's wealth?estimated at $10,000,000?came as an absolute windfall. He had been one of three zealous Sunday School teachers in his youth, the other two being a young woman and her brother. This three-cornered friendship was lifelong. The young woman married Lumber Tycoon E. B. Eddy. Presently he died. Mrs. Eddy and her brother, when they died, left 1.507 shares (control) of E. B. Eddy Co. to their pious friend "Dick" Bennett...
...square-chinned, keen-eyed lawyer began his political career in the Northwest Provincial Legislature, has steadily advanced in the Conservative Party, was at one time Minister of Justice. In 1927, with the Party politically bankrupt, Bachelor Bennett was called to a helm he has since masterfully held, putting new vim and fight into Conservatives. He lives at Palliser Hotel in Calgary, Alberta, in austere magnificence with his sister, who idolizes and prays for him. In the lay councils of the United Church of Canada he is paramount...