Word: bennette
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this democratic age to engrave the head of George V on a $1,000 bill would profoundly embarrass His Majesty. Last week the King's good friend, Canada's rich and pious Premier Richard Bedford Bennett, prepared to release from the Bank of Canada early next year a whole series of new banknotes with the following denominations, portraits...
Revenge with Music (words & music by Howard Dietz & Arthur Schwartz; Selwyn & Franklin, producers). Given settings by Albert Johnson, costumes by Constance Ripley, dance ensembles by Michael Mordkin and orchestrations by Robert Russell Bennett, the Princeton Triangle Club could put on a show which could hold its own with Revenge with Music. An expensive production by four of the leading technicians of the musical stage is all that really distinguishes the book and music by Schwartz & Dietz from something which might have been turned out for the McCarter Theatre...
Thus did Mayor LaGuardia dramatize his city's long fight to get the airline business away from Newark. Floyd Bennett Field, built five years ago on Brooklyn's Barren Island at a cost of $4,000,000, has been virtually deserted while Newark Airport grew fat & famed as the world's busiest commercial flying field. But the latter's sagging runways, built on filled-in marshland, are so bumpy that airline pilots call it "Mount Newark." For lack of hangar space at Newark, TWA has agreed to move to Floyd Bennett by Jan.1. To hold other...
Prime obstacle to Floyd Bennett's capture of the airline business is the fact that Newark is the official metropolitan airmail terminus. The threat to move the mail elsewhere caused New Jersey's Governor Moore last week to wire Postmaster General Farley: "It would be rather a shabby trick to play upon Newark after it had spent such vast sums [$5,000,000] to facilitate the Federal mail service...
...less pedantic than he looks but more than he pretends. A publisher's assistant since he was 18 (he was 19 years with Chatto & Windus), he retired to his Surrey cottage six years ago to give all his time to his own manuscripts. The late Enoch Arnold Bennett described Swinnerton: "He tells authors what they ought to do and ought not to do. He is marvelously and terribly particular and fussy about the format of the books issued by the firm. Questions as to fonts of type, width of margins, disposition of title-pages, tint and texture of bindings...