Word: canadians
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Published last autumn by Bobbs-Merrill Co. was a $2.50 volume called Labor Spy, purporting to be the autobiography of a crack operative who spent 20 years at his trade. Apparently he found it healthy to retire to a Canadian farm to write under his old detective agency designation GT-99. The book was a hair-raising success story of how a good machinist broke into the spy business writing daily reports on his fellow workmen, advanced to union-busting, then settled down in a midwest industrial centre to bore into the local labor movement in behalf of the manufacturers...
Grey Owl, pride of the Province of Saskatchewan, is in point of fact not a native Canadian, not a born Ojibway, not a full-blooded Indian. Vague about his antecedents he believes he was born Archie McNeil, son of a Scottish father and an Apache mother from the U. S. After a childhood in the U. S. he was adopted into the Ojibway tribe in Ontario, given the name Wa-Sha-Quon-Asin, meaning Walks-in-Dark or Grey...
During the War he served overseas with the Canadian troops, returned wounded in 1917 to become a forest ranger. In 1928 the sufferings of a wounded beaver turned him against trapping. He let his greying hair grow, braided it in pigtails, began to write children's nature stories which were eagerly bought by British magazines...
...faculty one evening last week, Canadian-born Dr. Stewart Grant Cole, president of Kalamazoo College and a one-time Baptist minister, announced that Canadian-born Economics Professor Carey K. Ganong was to be dismissed for "inefficiency" and failure to become a naturalized U. S. citizen, as is President Cole. As word of the dismissal spread through the college, indignant students quickly rounded up the band, paraded around the campus, were addressed at a rally by Dr. Ganong, who declared the college officials had given him no opportunity to defend himself. By dawn the 350 students had decided to strike. When...
Only a decade ago Sibelius' cold water was considered a drink for connoisseurs to sip. But of late the public taste for his invigorating music has reached the proportions of thirsty demand. In 1935 a poll of the Columbia Broadcasting System's U. S. and Canadian listeners gave him first place in popularity (Beethoven was second) among all composers, past and present. This autumn Manhattan's Radio City MusicHall Conductor Erno Rapee unhesitatingly undertook to broadcast Sibelius' entire set of seven symphonies. The Boston Symphony and Philadelphia Orchestra play them far oftener than the once-popular...