Word: canada
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lieutenant colonel in the Army Engineers Corps, invented the Schick electric dry shaver manufactured in New Haven, drew big royalties. In 1933 he formed a Bahama corporation to receive his royalties, thereby making a saving in taxes. In 1935 by special dispensation of his friend Prime Minister Bennett of Canada he became a Canadian citizen, without the customary five years' steady residence. He formed more Bahama companies and transferred a big block of securities to them and could not be stopped in any way from doing so because he was no longer a U. S. citizen...
...South Atlantic flights, and at Hanoi. French Indo-China, for Far Eastern flying. France won the right to use Germany's catapult ships in the Atlantic. Co-operation was necessary because France lacks planes, Germany lacks capital, and both lack rights to land in the Azores, Bermuda, Canada...
Died. Sir Robert Laird Borden, 82, longtime (1911-20) Conservative Prime Minister of Canada; of heart failure; in Ottawa...
Albert and Anna Howard Fellowship of $1,000, for advanced study of the ancient Greeks and Romans, divided between John R. Grant 1G, of St. Catherines, Ontario, Canada, and William L. Grant, of Victoria...
After receiving Mr. Smith, Pius XI gave a general audience for some 400 newly weds and pilgrims from the U. S., India, France, Germany, Canada and Spain. He honored Mr. Smith by seating him in front of the Papal throne and intoning to the throng: "We have with us today a beautiful and worthy representative of America in the person of Mr. Smith, who does honor to all he represents in America and above all to his name and profession as a son of the Catholic Church. ... A man about whom there has been much discussion in important...