Word: canadians
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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James ["Bud"] Stillman, Manhattan banker's son, who, as every gum-chewer knows, married the Cinderella of the Canadian woods, entered last week the Harvard Medical School. He took up residence with his wife (nee Lena Wilson) in Brookline, Mass. Said she: "This home of ours is really a student home. My husband has to study hard, you know. . . . His career is ahead of him and he doesn't want to be interrupted by too much gaiety...
...Beaconsfield Club in Montreal last week Virginia Wilson of Chicago, defeated Peggy Wattles of Buffalo, 5 up and 4 to play for the Canadian women's golf championship. Dora Virtue, of Montreal, was triumphant over Edith Quier, of Reading. Pa., in the second round. The Quier-Virtue score was 2 up, i to play...
Married. Capt. the Viscount Caryl Nicholas Charles Hardinge, 23, fourth Viscount of Lahore and King's Newton, Derbyshire, Aide-de-camp to the Governor-General of Canada since 1926; to Margot Fleming, granddaughter of the late Sir Sanford Fleming, famed Canadian-Pacific railroad engineer & publicist; in Ottawa, Canada...
Observers took keen interest in the fact that young, spirited, dynamic Finance Minister Montes de Oca has swallowed with such enthusiasm the Canadian doctor's bulky capsule: denationalization of railways. In Mexico, where advanced social theorizing is typical of even elder politicians, young Minister Montes de Oca might well have aspired to become a benevolent Railway Tsar...
Because so much now depends upon reorganization of the railways, Mexicans manifested lively interest last week in their Canadian railway doctor. Sir Henry Worth Thornton, though a Knight, and though president of the Canadian National Railways, was born in the U. S. at Logansport, Ind., 56 years ago. Both his first and second wives were U. S. born. The Pennsylvania Railroad took him on in the Engineering Department (1894), advanced him steadily, and in 1911 handed over to him the General Superintendentship of the Long Island railroad, a post which he had held for three years...