Word: bennette
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Traitor" Bennett. On the constructive side of his campaign speeches, Mr. Bennett has urged much more than countervailing duties, in fact high tariffs all around, and protections for Canadian industries even against those of the Mother Country. By turning this idea inside out Mr. King and his henchmen (who favor "preferential tariffs" on Empire goods) have been able to impute to Mr. Bennett a sort of spacious treachery to the Empire as a whole, a niggardly and local view. This is the more grotesque because the Conservative Party is traditionally the arch-Imperial party of Canada. But in this election...
Bachelor Richard Bedford Bennett, the Conservative leader, is a "new" man, 60 years old. He has never been Prime Minister. He won his leadership at the Conservative Party caucus of 1927, after Conservative Prime Minister Arthur Meighen had been forced out of office a total failure...
...Issue. Just as U. S. Republicans and Democrats stand broadly for much the same things, so do Canadian Conservatives and Liberals. There is a little ''religious issue" up in Saskatchewan (the Catholics claiming that Protestant Bennett is abetting the Canadian Ku Klux Klan) but this is scarcely of Dominion importance. Down east in Quebec there is the issue of "conscription." Canada had a Conservative government during the War. Its members forced conscription upon all Canada, against the bitter protests of Quebec. After the War, Quebeckers (who had been called "cowards" by their ancient Ontario enemies) turned Liberal and have stayed...
...Traitor" King. In their campaign speeches Bachelors Bennett and King have made amply clear that each is resolved to deprive the U. S. of any undue tariff advantage. The recent budget, brought in by Mr. King's Finance Minister, the Rt. Hon. Charles Avery ("Charlie") Dunning (TIME, May 12). wobbled as far from traditional free trade as did the Al Smith- Democratic platform...
...shrewd Mr. Bennett has looked through this Liberal telescope from the opposite...