Word: alberta
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Country. Leaving the wheatlands for the cow country, the royal train stopped briefly next morning at Medicine Hat, Alberta, where the Queen became so interested in a girl band from Big Sandy, Montana, 350 miles away, that the King was obliged to remind her that the train was waiting. At Calgary 200,000 Canadians and U. S. citizens up for a good time gave the royal couple a rousing western welcome. Two thousand Blackfeet, Sarcees, Piegans and Stonys whooped and hollered in their most intimidating manner while their chiefs conferred on George VI a new title: "Great Chief Albino...
...Calgary, Alberta, the Reverend H. M. Hamnett planned to have one of his big toes cut off. Announced reason: the toe was grafted from the amputated foot of a German during the World War, since the European crisis has been "kicking...
President Conant '14, made news this summer by taking a trip to Jasper National Park, Alberta, Canada, and indulging in mountain climbing...
Married. Christopher Kilmer, 20, son of the late Soldier-Poet Joyce Kilmer (Trees'); and Alberta Taylor Daniel, 22; in Arlington...
...muzzling the hostile press and making all banks Social Credit institutions, Governor General Lord Tweedsmuir vetoed the project. Final setback came last March. According to the British North America Act (Canada's Constitution), the Dominion holds control over currency, banking, interprovincial commerce. Canada's Supreme Court pondered Alberta's Social Credit laws, decided unanimously that they ran afoul the Dominion's monetary system...