Word: bruce
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...youngest Prime Minister of a British Dominion, and the only one who keeps an airplane in the cellar of his house, is Australia's brisk, zestful Stanley Melbourne Bruce, 46. Last week he fought and lost on the most vital issue in Australian policies. One vote cost him defeat- the vote of a rich, debonair yachtsman who raced in Sir Thomas Lipton's defeated Shamrock...
...Banff Festival the old contests are revived. There were 14,000 people (most of them in kilts) watching the outdoor piping and dancing contests. Among them were kilted Lieutenant-Governor Robert Randolph Bruce of British Columbia and William Egbert of Alberta, and the Rev. Charles William Gordon (Ralph Connor), Canadian Novelist author of The Sky Pilot, To Him that Hath, who conducted an open air religious service at Lake Devil's Cauldron. Some of last week's events were...
Notorious Philatelist Hind remembers anti-philatelic Rev. E. Bruce Cornford of Portsmouth, England, who was quoted in Stamp Collecting (London) as the author of this playlet...
...long hours, were criticized for opposing unionization, were advised to take warning from upheavals in the textile mills in the Carolinas and Tennessee (TIME, April 15 et seq.). Chief critics were West Virginia's W. Jett Lauck, chairman of the Bureau of Applied Economics, and Virginia's Bruce Crawford, Norton publisher. Declared Publisher Crawford...
...George Bruce Cortelyou, 67, progressively Roosevelt's Secretary of Commerce & Labor, Postmaster General and Secretary of the Treasury, since 1909 president of New York's Consolidated Gas Co., is especially alert against gas asphyxiation among his customers and generally interested in overcoming suffocation from any cause. Last week, after a gas company superintendent had successfully resuscitated a man unconscious 383 hours in a local hospital, Mr. Cortelyou donated the city a dozen resuscitators, costing $3,000 each...