Richard Bedford Bennett, 1st Viscount Bennett was a Canadian lawyer, businessman, philanthropist, and politician who served as the 11th prime minister of Canada from 1930 to 1935.

Headlines from June 26, 1947

NAVY FAVORS SALE OF 100 SHIPS TO AID AMERICAS DEFENSE; Proposes Transferring Craft to Bolster Latin American and Canadian Fleets GREAT LAKES DANGER SEEN Eisenhower Says Area Would Be One of First Targets of Enemy Air Forces NAVY FAVORS SALE OF 100 U.S. VESSELS

U.S. Note Accuses Rumania Of Mass Arrests and Terror; Charges 'Drastic Deprivation' of Liberties in Violation of Treaty -- Implies Soviet Influence -- Britain Also Protests U.S. NOTE CHARGES RUMANIAN TERROR

Labor Law Protest Grows; 220,000 Idle in Mine Strike; With More Than Half of Country's Coal Diggers Out, Big Mills Start Banking Furnaces, Laying Off Workers 222,000 NOW IDLE IN THE COAL STRIKE

14,000 GO OUT HERE; 360 on Staten Island Night Shift Walk Off Job at 7:30 P.M. TEN YARDS ARE AFFECTED 9 Owned by Bethlehem Steel -- Work on 60 Vessels Being Built Will Stop 35,000 in East Coast Shipyards Out on Strike as Peace Talks Fail

SNYDER SAYS U.S. DIDN'T ASK AID BIDS; Issues a Clarification Later Denying Any Disagreement With Marshall on Plan Snyder Says U.S. Didn't Ask Bids

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