Word: bonner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cake Eaters. Was there anything wrong with this? Builder Gross did not think so. Neither did another builder, Bertram Bonner of Richmond, who had made $1,000,000 in windfall profits. He pointed out that FHA regulations had been drawn to give builders a liberal incentive, and Congressmen had been well aware at the time that costs might be less than the mortgages. Said Bonner: "I find it a source of disappointment that our acts are criticized instead of praised...
...three visiting educators will be Assistant Professor Francis T. Bonner of Brooklyn College; Associate Professor Curtis Dahl of Wheaton College; and Associate Professor Valden W. Miles of Wayne University...
Hymns & Prayers. Determined to make good on his election promise, Attorney General Bonner sent the Mounted Police into the area immediately. Children were separated from their parents and put under temporary care of provincial welfare workers. All the adults in the camp (77 men, 71 women) were herded into a train. Praying loudly and singing mournful Russian hymns, they were hauled 590 miles to Vancouver to stand trial for contributing to juvenile delinquency...
...year prison sentences. The punishment did not increase the Sons' respect for the law. But it did succeed in getting the Freedomite children into school: the youngsters were placed in foster homes and sent to classes regularly while their parents were in prison. Attorney General Bonner is apparently planning to use the same stern method to enforce the school law again...
...Baggage. Public opinion was sharply divided over Bonner's decision. Some people, particularly those in the areas close to the Freedomites' dynamitings and burnings, felt that a tough policy was the only way to deal with the sect. Others urged patience, arguing that harsh treatment of the Sons only created sympathy for them, even causing some peaceable Doukhobors to join their ranks. The differing views were reflected in Vancouver's leading newspapers, the Sun and the Province. Said the Sun: "The tough policy has been tried before [and] has always failed." Said the Province: "Plain, ordinary methods...