Word: bennette
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only department of the game in which British poloists would like to copy their U. S. rivals. They would also like to play as ably. When competition for the Westchester Cup began in 1886, ten years after polo was introduced in the U. S. by Publisher James Gordon Bennett, England won regularly. The famed "Big Four" of U. S. polo - Devereux Milburn, Harry Payne Whitney and the Waterbury brothers, Monty and Larry - turned the tide in 1909, won again in 1911 and 1913, without losing a game. The U. S. lost the Westchester Cup in 1914, regained...
Died. Nathan Burkan, 56, Rumanian-born expert on copyright and contract law; of acute indigestion; in Great Neck, L. I. Among his clients were Composer Victor Herbert, the late Florenz Ziegfeld, Al Jolson, Gary Cooper, Constance Bennett, Ina Claire, Mrs. Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt...
...model prisoner. Loudly and publicly he turned to the Catholic Church, became a favorite of kindly Chaplain W. T. Kingsley. An established custom at Kingston were Convict Ryan's burning addresses to young inmates on "Crime Doesn't Pay." Prison reform societies hailed him, Premier Richard Bedford Bennett went to see him, emerged deeply moved. Last July the Ministry of Justice awarded Red Ryan a "ticket-of-leave," a privileged form of parole in which a convict reports only occasionally to the authorities...
...feel the letdown very keenly," said pious Richard Bedford Bennett...
Philo Sherman Bennett Prize, of $50, for the best essay discussing the principles of free government, to Harold Winkler '36, of Lawrence...