Word: halifax
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Rose Maureen, 13, Shane William, 10, Brian James, 6) a nanny (nurse), an aide-de-camp, a valet, a maid, a secretary, a lady in waiting, three dogs, 28 trunks and suitcases onto the four-stacker Aquitania in Southampton (see cut), and in a grey drizzle set sail for Halifax...
Everybody seemed to want a U.S. visa. In 14 U.S. consulates, from Halifax to Vancouver, hard-pressed clerks interviewed Canadians, laboriously filled out long forms, took fingerprints of prospective new Americans. Last week consular officials paused to look at the record. In the last six months of 1945 they had okayed permanent visas for 8,767 Canadians, turned down thousands of others. If the present pressure continued, 20,000 Canadians will migrate to the U.S. in the 1945-46 fiscal year. Not since 1931 had so many Canadians pulled up stakes and moved south...
This week Major John Weir Foote, heroic "Padre X," who won a Victoria Cross at Dieppe (TIME, Feb. 25) was to sail from Halifax on a special mission: he would take the bones back with him to France, see them ceremoniously buried in a cemetery near Falaise. Said an official statement...
...Earl of Halifax, some 60 years away from childhood, came down with a childish illness at just the wrong time. Soon after Winston Churchill arrived for a stay, the Ambassador broke out with chicken pox. Churchill crossed his fingers...
...Earl of 'Halifax, retiring British Ambassador, faltered momentarily as he talked with Omaha newspaper reporters about the proposed $3,750,000,000 U.S. loan to Britain, but recovered with diplomathematical aplomb: "I've always been bad on sums. . . . Let's see, what did I say, millions or billions...