Word: decatur
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Outside the Parliament Building, tulips bloomed and strollers idled along sun drenched walks. Inside, the House of Com mons was being told that Canada was in for a cold, tough winter. Reason: the coal strike in the U.S. (see NATIONAL AF FAIRS). Said Reconstruction Minister Clarence Decatur Howe: "The Canadian position will be very serious. . . . I am much more alarmed . . . than I was at any time during the war." Two days later the truce in the strike was reached. But even a final settlement would not mean coal for Canada right away. U.S. bins would probably have to be filled...
While Canada's UNO delegates planned for peace in London, Reconstruction Minister Clarence Decatur Howe made a cautious hedge in Ottawa. Against the possibility that Canada might be caught short again as she was in 1939 (when tank regiments went overseas minus tanks), he added what he called "a fourth service" to the armed forces. Its title: Canadian Arsenals...
...true that you had a scrap with Stelle about the placing of a hospital in Decatur, Ill. in his home state...
...Stelle say anything about your deficiencies prior to the final location of the Decatur hospital...
Bare Facts. In Decatur, Ind., Mrs. Elgie May Simmons filed suit for divorce, complaining that in six years of marriage her husband had bought her only one dress (price...