Word: canada
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Born in England, Smitty got into photography in 1902 by inviting what he thought were ladies into his studio for portrait work. He went to Canada in 1911 and did military photography. The War took him to Camp Lewis, Wash., where he made lots of money taking pictures of soldiers in uniform to be sent home to wives and sweethearts. He joined the Times...
...field they heard a sermon by Most Rev. George's Gauthier, Archbishop-Coadjutor of Montreal. A dynamic, youngish priest whom they all knew, Father Henri Roy, celebrated a nuptial mass after 105 priests made the couples men and wives. Then, in 105 automobiles lent by General Motors of Canada, Ltd., the couples drove to St. Helen's Island, where they ate with 3,000 friends and relations, were given rosaries, crucifixes and photographs of Pope Pius XII-all these tokens sent with the apostolic blessing of His Holiness...
...young people were Jocists, members of a Belgian-born youth movement, Jeunesse Ouvrière Chrétienne (Christian Working Youth), which militantly aims to Christianize the ranks of labor (TIME, Sept. 26). For eight years Jocism's most vigorous leader in Canada has been Father Roy, 40, a onetime newsboy who belongs to the same religious order (Oblates of Mary Immaculate) as Quebec's Cardinal Villeneuve. To Father Roy, 50,000 Canadian Jocists, aged 14 to 25, look for spiritual inspiration. The mass marriage was his biggest effort to date in providing it. It would, he thought...
...months later, come boom, come depression, the Dankowskes chugged through all 48 States, Canada, parts of Mexico...
...vital flank, the Soviet Union in 1922-24 helped the herdsmen of Outer Mongolia drive out their ruling princes and establish the Mongolian People's Republic with a population of 800,000 and an area of one million square miles, almost one-third as large as all Canada. Under Russian tutelage the Mongol revolutionaries have attempted to transform into a semi-modern state a nation whose citizens were nomads with a way of life unchanged in a thousand years. The descendants of Ghengis Khan's warriors have been taught to drive tanks and trucks and fly airplanes...