Word: bennetts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While most of the press inveighed against the bill, a thoroughly well-organized Administration bloc kept it moving forward in the Senate. When Missouri's Bennett Clark and several collaborators laboriously brought in 20 amendments, most of them excepting specific Government agencies from Presidential tampering, they were voted down at the rate of one a minute. When Virginia's Harry Byrd proposed killing the section applying to the Comptroller General, the Administration's majority against him stood at 4740-36. All this evidently made Floor Leader Alben Barkley so confident that instead of letting the bill come...
...Provincetown Players, hit Broadway's fringe in The Earth Between, had an engagement (complicated by belated measles) with Blanche Yurka's troupe in The Wild Duck, a summer at the Cape Playhouse, and Broadway successes in Broken Dishes with Donald Meek, The Solid South with Richard Bennett. Two screen tests resulted, and in December 1930, Bette, Ruthie and their terrier dog went to Hollywood...
...strength of her performance in The Man Who Played God, Warners signed her to an eleven-year contract. Her hair rinsed to an ash blonde from its natural medium shade, she set out to try to justify for Warners the glamorous canard that she was "a schoolgirl Constance Bennett." It was not until Cabin in the Cotton (TIME, Oct. 10, 1932), with Richard Barthelmess, that she got a chance to develop her stripe of cinemeanness. Two years later RKO borrowed her for the role of hateful, shrewish, supremely selfish Mildred in W. Somerset Maugham's Of Human Bondage (TIME...
Merrily We Live (Constance Bennett, Brian Aherne, Billie Burke, Alan Mowbray; TIME, March...
...even though they were exonerated of any knowledge of the criminal acts; 3) filing of bankruptcy petitions by Partners Mygatt and F. Kingsley Rodewald; 4) a plea of guilty by Richard Whitney to a second indictment for grand larceny, this one brought by New York Attorney General John J. Bennett Jr. for pledging $109,000 worth of New York Yacht Club securities for his own loans; 5) revelation by Richard Whitney that his brother, Morgan-partner George Whitney, loaned him $1,082,000 in cash last November...