Word: governors
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Lawrence Stanley, Governor General of Canada in the early nineties, put up a cup to be held for a year by the hockey team that won the world's championship. After each series of games the cup is filled with champagne and each player on the winning team takes a drink out of it. It is a battered cup. It has been dropped in trains and automobiles; players have scratched their names on it with penknives. Last week in Montreal the Stanley Cup was once more filled and passed around and the team that drank...
Engaged. Herman A. MacDonald, secretary to Governor Alvan Tufts Fuller of Massachusetts, onetime mayor of Beverly, Mass.; to Miss Marion Sarah Young, of Brookline, Mass. Said Governor Fuller last fortnight, "I think Captain MacDonald must be in love or something, because every time I go away he gets into trouble writing letters" (TIME, April...
Died. Rupert Alexander George Augustus Cambridge, Viscount Trematon, 20, nephew of British Queen-Empress Mary; at Lyons, of injuries sustained in an automobile accident. His father, the Earl of Athlone, is Governor-General of the Union of South Africa. As everyone knows, the Queen and her brother, the Earl of Athlone, were of the Teck Teutonic ducal house of the Kingdom of Württemberg; but by royal British Decree of July 14, 1917, the name of the British house of Teck was changed to Cambridge...
William Ellery Sweet, onetime (1923-24) governor of Colorado, and his son, Channing Fullerton Sweet, purchased the 15,307-acre Jack Woods cattle ranch, upon which they expect to breed a larger number of purebred cattle than does any other ranch...
Between the appearance of the two advertisements Governor Smith of New York vetoed legislative measures to enfranchise toll bridges across the St. Lawrence at the Thousand Islands, and across the Niagara River at both Tonawanda and Niagara Falls...