Word: halifax
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Fisk conceived the shrewd scheme of hiring a fast clipper to start for England the moment Lee surrendered, sell hand over fist until official news of the defeat, then buy and make delivery when the bonds were practically worthless. Over the 50-mile gap in the telegraph line to Halifax gangs of linemen strung a temporary wire; and in thirteen days-so well had he calculated-Fisk flashed over it the one word "Go!" His clipper reached Liverpool five days before the official report of Southern defeat. The only reason that Fisk and his capitalists did not make their everlasting...
...professor of Comparative Law in the University of Paris. J. Howard Toelle, holder in 1924-25, is a Professor of Law in the University of Montana, and Horace E. Read, holder of the International Law Scholarship if Professor of Law at Dalhousie, the University of Halifax...
...last for approximately two weeks. Twenty-five Harvard students took the cruise last June on board the battleship Wyoming. Other student officers on the ship came from the Naval Reserve units at Yale, Georgia Tech, and Northwestern, most of the men taking the complete trip as far north as Halifax, N. S., and as far south as Charleston, S. C. The students were warmly received at each city visited, and were accompanied from Portland to Boston by Curtis D. Wilbur, Secretary of the Navy...
...that of the Polish flyers, Kasimir Kubala and Louis Idzikowski, 60 miles off Cape Finisterre, Spain, by the German steamship Samos. After a year's palaver with the Polish Ministry of War, they had left Paris, intending to pursue the southern route to the Azores, thence to Halifax, thence to New York. Ten hours later the steamer Aztec sighted them progressing mysteriously northwards, 463 miles north of the Azores. About two-and-a-half hours later, the steamer Tamakura saw them winging eastward at a position 215 miles northeast of that reported by the Aztec. Manifestly they either were...
Beloved Speaker Whitley had been returned to Parliament from Halifax for 28 consecutive years, in 1918 received 22,136 votes to his Laborite opponent's 4,036 and was elected unopposed in 1924. But obscure Alderman Longbottom polled 17)536 victorious Labor votes...