Word: bennette
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...winter. Jenkins bands play in schools, churches, halls throughout the South and West. In summer they head North. This year 65 of the 125 bandsters were chosen, divided into Bands No. 1 and No. 2. Last week Band No. 1, with 21-year-old Freddy Bennett as leader, played in Providence, R. I., moved on to Hartford, Conn. Under the guidance of William Blake, who has been with the Orphanage for 38 years, Band No. 2 had been at Saratoga, N. Y. where the horseracing season opened early this month (TIME, Aug. 12). Day & night at the race track...
Afraid that he might lose a Canadian general election by seeming too much like President Hoover, Canada's stuffy, rich and pious Premier Richard Bedford Bennett long ago announced a "New Deal" (TIME, Jan. 14). Last week his enemies set out to defeat him for being too much like President Roosevelt. Flaying the New Deal shibboleth of Reform-before-Recovery, the Premier's bitter rival, onetime Canadian Premier William Lyon MacKenzie King launched his Liberal Party's electioneering campaign with a radio speech in which he keynoted "Recovery Ahead of Reform...
Said Mr. King, "Mr. Bennett has declared that recovery must certainly follow social reform. The truth is that economic recovery is the only sure foundation for the successful establishment and continuous operation of social services. To seek to erect an ambitious program of social services on a stationary or diminishing national income is like building a house upon the sands...
Just before the War he moved on to Manhattan and James Gordon Bennett's Herald. In the War Harris won the rank of captain of military intelligence, returned to Paris as editor and general manager of the Herald's European edition. When the Heralds were sold to Frank Munsey in 1920, Harris drifted back to his native...
...Bennett once said, "Will you please loan me five cents, Mr. King? I do not seem to have any change and wish to telephone a friend...