Word: bennette
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...square miles of Prince Edward Island in the Gulf of St. Lawrence can boast that they are the Dominion's most densely populated province. Last week their ballots drove the final provincial nail into the political coffin of Canada's rich & prosperous Conservative Premier Richard Bedford Bennett who is now somewhat less of a national hero than Herbert Hoover...
Exulted Liberal King at Ottawa last week: "I hope this will lead Premier Bennett to see what he can expect as a result of refusing the dissolution of Parliament we have asked and clinging to office to the very last minute!'' Of caustic Mr. King and the ever-gentlemanly but reserved and unpopular Premier is told this tale...
...glad you do upset me: such agitation is necessary for a sane, decanal existence. So keep on being natural and racey-and even spicey. The country needs you, and most of all do I. I hope to read you, no matter what you print, "from now on!" HIRAM R. BENNETT DEAN...
...debate in the House of Commons on herring, Mr. Hales whipped a dead herring out of a bag and waved it at his opponents. The author of a book called Harold's Adventures, Harold Hales likes to tell his friends that he is the original of Arnold Bennett's The Card, known also as "Denry the Audacious," a brash young man who in two Bennett novels made his way by his wits. But beyond all this Harold Hales wanted some foolproof device to make Posterity remember him with respect. Forty years ago he found...
...provocative sketch of a murdered woman in the nude. Cheek by jowl with a learned discussion of "Scientific Crime Detection" from Assistant Superintendent H. J. Martin of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police was the life story of Los Angeles' Thomas M. White, the "Rattlesnake Bandit." John J. Bennett, "New York State's Fighting Attorney General," sounded the war cry against "Commercial Racketeering," while in the penny dreadful manner Editor Lawes himself began a novel about New York City's criminal classes entitled "Legal Larceny...