Word: bennetts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia-which probably handles the largest number of labor cases of any court in the land-Harry Truman last week appointed Missouri's labor-hated ex-Senator Bennett Champ Clark. It was probably his worst appointment to date. The President owed Bennett Clark little. As Senators they had rarely seen eye to eye. Harry Truman voted 99% New Deal, Bennett Clark had chipped and sniped away at Franklin Roosevelt. In the 1944 primaries, Clark was repudiated by Missouri voters in the primary, largely on the strength of labor opposition. Now labor...
...what we can," sighed Ralph Waldo Emerson, "summer will have its flies." In 1945, summer was having its perennial drought in readable books. "Along about every July," cracked Random House's bubbling Bennett Cerf, "publishers start crying into their $6 lunches at the Colony and $2 mint juleps at the Ritz Bar that business is awful. But by September 10, they're again screaming that they're in the 90% income tax bracket...
...Lawton, Okla., ex-Marine Bennett Savage, wounded on Bougainville, ran the Oklahoma Club, a night spot whose best customers were soldiers from nearby Fort Sill. Proprietor Savage needed no G.I. loan. He invested $12,000 he had made in similar, prewar ventures. His future: "I'll stick as long as the business is good...
Next day, the Society of Independent Motion Picture Producers, spearheaded by militantly independent David 0. Selznick. took Yorkshireman Rank back to Perino's for more chicken. Nothing came of it. That night Sam Goldwyn entertained at a dinner featuring Myrna Loy, Gary Grant and Joan Bennett. They found Mr. Rank charming...
Married. Leland Stanford ("Larry") MacPhail, 55, redheaded, stem-winding N.Y. Yankees boss; and Jean Bennett Wanamaker, 35, his pretty secretary; both for the second time; in Baltimore...