Word: canadians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...claiming to be a newspaper man who recently victimized that paper through bad checks. The man gave the name of Wilbur Pledge, it was said, and sometimes used the alias of Read. He claimed to have had experience with the Milwaukee Journal and to have seen service with the Canadian Army. The Banner asked that it be notified in case the man is found and described him as about 5 ft. 8 in. tall, weighing 140 lb.; ruddy complexion, short stubby hair...
...first time since his accession, Edward VIII left Britain this week to inaugurate the $1,000,000 War memorial to 60,000 Canadian War dead at Vimy Ridge. The King crossed the Channel on the Admiralty yacht Enchantress escorted by a Canadian and a French destroyer. With utmost solemnity 20,000 persons witnessed the ceremony, heard an exchange of friendly and feeling speeches by King Edward and President Lebrun of France...
...acres on which Canada's War memorial stands have been deeded by France to the Canadian Government. Said King Edward: "Though the mortal remains of Canada's sons be far from home, here where we now stand their immortal memory is hallowed upon soil that is as surely Canada's as any within her nine provinces...
Mainspring in the promotion of Narragansett was a onetime Rhode Island mill operator named Walter E. O'Hara, a fast-witted, hot-tempered Irishman with enterprise and gall. He and some friends, including Providence's Judge James E. Dooley, onetime president of the Canadian-American Hockey League, bought the 130 acres on which the track is built from an oldtime Woonsocket saloonkeeper named John F. Letendre for $150,000. Promoter O'Hara gets $75,000 a year as managing director of the track, holds 142,000 of the 350,000 shares of common stock which...
Lord Beaverbrook is a Canadian. His crack cartoonist is a New Zealander. who moved to Australia, finally graduated to the Mother Country. At his large draughtsman's table, where he puffs innumerable black cigars, he earns $50,000 yearly...