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...that in some counties 90% of the pupils spoke no English, Ontario finally recalled "Regulation 17." At Toronto. Last week the University of Toronto, province of Ontario, celebrated its centenary. Twenty-seven persons received honorary degrees, among them: Charles Vincent Massey, Canadian Minister to the U. S.; George Howard Ferguson, Premier of Ontario; Stephen Leacock, economist & humorist; Frederick Paul Keppel, President of the Carnegie Foundation; John Huston Finley, editor of of New York Times; Dr. Livingston Farrand, President of Cornell University; Ellen Fitz Pendleton, President of Wellesley College; Henry M. Tory, President of the University of Alberta; Richard W. Livingston...
...most potent exponent. He rose from it to such might that he earned the curse of the entire Bhingi race in Australia and became the object, in his electrically guarded mansion, of their attacks by totem pole, octopus and many another insidious device. His tragedy was that Safra Ferguson, the Bhingi maiden cultivated to perfection by an eccentric U. S. dowager, could not love him, though she frequently saved his life. From the bold wind that he sowed against the Bhingis and their Catholic teachers, Barboas reaped a whirlwind of remorse. Safra, returning to her people, was slain by them...
...boom for a Democratic 1928 national ticket with Governor Moody as Governor Smith's running mate. Should the Democrats nominate Governor Smith, the "logical" vice presidential candidate would be a dry Southerner, and Governor Moody has come into national prominence as the result of his having eliminated the Ferguson family from Texas politics. But attempts to interpret the meeting as a great Democratic get-together failed, inasmuch as neither of the principals mentioned politics and as Governor Moody's attitude was restrained almost to indifference. Political advisers in Texas are said to have cautioned Governor Moody against being...
...course, appreciate the self-sacrifice that prompts Lady Rhondda and her American "consoeurs" in their willingness to share the burdens of national life, but one may also feel that the benighted male is able to get into enough trouble without help. There are those who think that "Ma" Ferguson in public life was an unnecessary evil; there are those who do not feel that Mrs. Snyder was a benevolent influence in the home. The modern woman has shown herself to be man's equal in all types of proficiency, government and murder as well as channel swimming. Undoubtedly the feminists...
...Ferguson. Ontario went dry in 1916 as a War measure; the man who made it wet again is Prime Minister G. Howard Ferguson. He said that under Prohibition, doctors wrote 1,500,000 liquor prescriptions a year; that 50 persons in Ontario died from poisonous liquor; that the Province was "saturated" with illegally sold liquor. Said Governor Ferguson: "Unless this thing was settled I would not care to be Prime Minister for another hour." In December, 1926, elections, the people elected a legislature pledged 2 to 1 in favor of the Ferguson plan of government liquor control...