Word: canadians
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Liquor being a not illegal commodity in parts of Canada, Canadian government officials cannot directly prohibit exporters from shipping their wares to the U. S. When 30 liquor docks were closed last week at Windsor, Ont., the reason given was not the well known fact that many a shipment consigned to "Cuba," "Mexico." "Nassau," etc. etc., was going straight across the water to Detroit. But National Revenue Minister Euler represented that Canada's export tax on liquor was being consistently evaded. Chairman Sir Henry Drayton of the Ontario (provincial) Liquor Control Board, also complained that export liquor was being...
...without its share in causing such official announcements, is diplomatic pressure by the U. S. in Canada. Last week the State Department announced that revision of the U. S.-Canadian anti-smuggling treaty of 1924 was under negotiation-an announcement meaning that U. S. Minister William Phillips had finished negotiating; that a conference to calk the U. S.-Canadian border more tightly against liquor will probably be held next month...
...good-nature of the protagonists made war seem a rather admirable, phenomenal cradle of heroes, The Somme is full of death and terror, last cigarets puffed on the ground, bodies, the conquered and the conquering, piled indifferently together. Best shot: a lonely piper, making death musical for a Canadian regiment...
...first upset in the post-election bull market came last week over a matter of $3. Sir Joseph Flavelle, head of the Canadian Marconi Co., a Canadian radio stock listed on the New York Curb, announced that $3 was too high a price for Canadian Marconi shares. Inasmuch as Canadian Marconi was being quoted at $27, Sir Joseph's tow Opinion of -the stock shocked Marconi speculators. Dropping perpendicularly at a speed that left the ticker far behind, Canadian Marconi dove to 15½ before trading in it was suspended. The stock had been riding on a rumor that...
McGill, the other perennial Canadian college to oppose the Crimson, has taken four victories without being even tied once. Pushing a 4-3 decision to three overtime periods at Madison Square Garden, New York, on New Year's Eve, 1926, has been the closest to victory that Harvard has come.Joseph Stubbs '20 (above) starting his second year as coach of the University hockey team, is putting his candidates through workouts in the Boston Garden. Captain John Tudor '29, (left), and H. W. Bigelow '30 (right) are among the veterans available...