Word: bedford
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have always placed great reliance on the "Literary Digest" presidential poll," he said, "but this year I don't know. In New Bedford, I understand the Digest shows Roosevelt to have a slight lead, but all our private polls indicate a Landon sweep...
Roosevelt is scheduled to arrive in Boston close to 4 o'clock after driving up from New Bedford and southern cities with Governor Curley. His address will be made from his automobile drawn up on a special platform on the Charles Street Mall...
Other locals of the Federation in Massachusetts are located in Lawrence, New Bedford, and a new group in Boston. There admit elementary and high school teachers. In addition there is a Western Massachusetts College Teachers group, composed mainly of Smith College professors. Officials of the Harvard group admitted that compared to such states as Ohio and New York, this is poor showing. However, at the convention of the Federation last August it was voted that funds should be made available for organization work on a regional basis. According to this plan Massachusetts will receive a sum from the national organization...
...good for at least $150,000,000. The list of branches and affiliates stemming from its headquarters in Houston's 16-story Cotton Exchange Building is a complete lesson in world cotton geography. In North America the name Anderson, Clayton & Co. can be found in Montreal, Boston, New Bedford, Providence, Charlotte, Greenville, Gastonia, Atlanta, Memphis, New Orleans, Dallas, Los Angeles, Mexico City and Torreon. In South America the firm has affiliates in Buenos Aires, Lima, Asuncion, Sao Paulo and Recife. Its Far Eastern offices are in Bombay, Shanghai and Osaka. Its Egyptian branch is in Alexandria, its French branch...
Like the U. S., Canada is a confederation. Its constitution, the British North America Act, 1867, apportions governing authority between the Federal and Provincial Governments. During Depression, Canada was also given a New Deal, hastily fabricated in 1934-35 by Canada's Conservative Prime Minister Richard Bedford Bennett in a last-minute attempt to escape the tag of "Canada's Hoover," stand forth as "Canada's Roosevelt." This attempt failed. Prime Minister Bennett thereupon ignored his own New Deal legislation, lost last October's elections and gave way to Liberal Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King...