Word: canadians
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...border. Such is the reputation of Circus Man John Ringling for discipline and probity-he entertained President Coolidge in Washington only lately (TIME, May 14)-that none of the Ringling officials was even suspected of connivance. At Malone, the Federal men confiscated some 4,000 bottles of prime Canadian whiskey, gin, wines, beer. Acrobats had it hidden in their kimonos. A Spanish couple hid it beneath their infants in an upper berth. The trains were run on a siding for the search and as word spread of what was happening, bottles showered out of the car windows. Possession cost...
...PLAINS OF ABRAHAM-James Oliver Curwood-Doubleday Doran ($2). All that Robert W. Chambers has left unread or unsaid of colorful records concerning the Canadian Northwest, the late James Oliver Curwood has supplemented. Noble youth Jeems, son of a true French Canadian woodsman, mourns his tomahawked mother. He rescues the beautiful maiden Toinette. With their faithful dog, they escape the Mohawks only to be captured by bloody Senecas. Toinette's beauty subtly prevails upon the chief to spare their lives, and for months they live according to Redman's ritual in Chenufsio, Hidden Town. A priest happens along...
Died. Basil King (pen name of William Benjamin King), 69, onetime Canadian minister of the Episcopal Church, later famed as blind author of opti-mystical novels (The Inner Shrine, The Conquest of Fear, Street Called Straight); after a four-year illness; in Cambridge, Mass...
Although the same events affect the Canadian manufacturers, five of them last week attacked the situation by merging. Canadian Woolens and its subsidiaries, Milton Spinning Mills and Otonabee Mills, with R. Forbes Co. and its subsidiaries, Orillia Worsted Co., were the parties to an agreement whereby a new company-Dominion Woolens & Worsteds Ltd.-will assume control of all. President of the Dominion Woolens & Worsteds is A. O. Dawson of Montreal, who has been Canadian Woolens' president...
Elected. Felix d'Herelle, famed French-Canadian bacteriologist, discoverer of the bacteriophage (TIME, Aug. 30, 1926); to the faculty of the Yale School of Medicine...