Word: bentley
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Henry Bentley, 58, Cincinnati lawyer who first established the proportional representation system in U. S. city government, was chiefly responsible for the city's change from machine to non-partisan government; in Cincinnati...
Speeches were made by Conductor Sergei Koussevitzky, the orchestra's President Bentley Wirt Warren, Festival President Gertrude Robinson Smith. The audience, accompanied by the orchestra, sang the Luther-Bach chorale, Ein' feste Burg ist unser Gott. Thus was dedicated the permanent home of the latest candidate for an "American Salzburg." Tanglewood, a large Stockbridge estate where Author Nathaniel Hawthorne used to live, was deeded by its owners to the Boston Symphony two years ago. After a concert was spectacularly rained out of a large tent last summer, energetic President Smith started a drive to raise...
Heinrich Bruening, lecturer on Government; Dean James M. Landis '24, professor of Legislation; Thomas N. Whitehead, associate professor of Business; Dean Joseph F. Hudnut '09, professor of Architecture; Bentley W. Warren '22; Frank W. Grinnel '95; Robert G. Dodge '93; and Melvin M. Johnson '31 were elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences...
SLEEP IN PEACE-Phyllis Bentley-Macmillan...
...partners in a Yorkshire textile mill, Alfred Armistead, liberal Conservative, and Henry Hinch-liffe, conservative Liberal, are posed as two representative, conflicting types of Victorian capitalism. Their children are involved in the conflict that dissolves the partnership, are nevertheless drawn together in their common rebellion against their parents. Author Bentley makes this two-way conflict the most interesting part of her story, which otherwise runs so true to form it resembles the competent playing of a piece of music that everybody knows. Out of family conflicts, the War, Depression, the two families produce one unhappy intermarriage, one well-known liberal...