Word: canadians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...phrase "five & ten" still trips off many a buyer's tongue, the "five & ten" has nonetheless joined the buggy and the speakeasy in the outdated past. From 1879 to 1932 Woolworth sold no single item for more than ten cents. Since 1932 WToolworth's U. S., Canadian and Cuban stores have sold items priced up to 20?, since 1935 up to 40?, since last year up to $1 and in theory there is no longer any top to Woolworth prices. These were milestones in F. W. Woolworth Co.'s career. Another came last week when...
Next day Archbishop Mooney was installed in his post in the presence of ten U. S. and Canadian archbishops, many a bishop, monsignor and priest. Escorted by Knights of Columbus in cocked hats, the ecclesiastics marched through crowded Detroit streets in what was the year's most showy parade, taking half an hour to pass through the portals of the Church of the Blessed Sacrament. There on a throne sat Archbishop Amleto Giovanni Cicognani, Apostolic Delegate to the U. S., whose name (pronounced chee-kone-yonny) had become to many an impious Detroiter "Chicken Annie." Three papal bulls were...
...School of Physics and Industrial Chemistry in Paris, studied dyestuff chemistry in Germany, was at War for four years in the French artillery, worked in various laboratories in France and England. In 1932 he joined Eldorado Mines, supervising the transportation and installation of all equipment for the Canadian refining plant. Marcel Pochon speaks fairly good English with a strong accent, wears modish clothes, tells humorous frontier anecdotes with a grave face...
Dark, stocky David Colony was born 37 years ago in Lithuania, went to Chicago at 15 to enter school, got through eight grades in a year. He joined the Canadian Royal Fusiliers, saw service in the Near East, returned to the U. S. to study at the University of Pennsylvania, become an Episcopal minister. A radical, David Colony was assigned to teach Latin at swank Episcopal Academy and assist in a church at Rosemont, both on the Main Line and both cool to his notions. Transferred to more congenial, lower-class parishes in Philadelphia suburbs. Rector Colony established a barter...
Back in San Francisco after frolicking at the famed annual outdoor tycoon bust of San Francisco's Bohemian Club. John P, Bickell, mining speculator and director of the Canadian Bank of Commerce and Bernard E. ("Sell 'Em Ben") Smith, celebrated Wall Street bear, backer of the Merrill-Lambie Coronation flight, were walking down Post Street toward Union Square. Said Speculator Smith: "I feel like taking a trip." Replied Banker Bickell: "That's a great idea. I'll go anywhere you want ." At that moment they were opposite the St. Francis Hotel which houses the offices...