Word: halifax
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...Halifax one day last week, a tall, grey-eyed Scottish stranger called on Nova Scotia Premier A. Stirling MacMillan. The stranger announced that he was "glad to be home." He would, he said, like to buy part of Nova Scotia...
...directed against Ontario's "wheedle whackers" -high-pressure speculative mining-stock promoters who sell by direct mail and long distance telephone. They have been riding Toronto's current stock boom. Complaints about their operations have poured in all the way from Portland on the Pacific to Halifax on the Atlantic...
...This is the first age in which it has been openly regarded as wrong for a nation, a Government, a party, or even a newspaper, to have a policy. . . . Field Marshal Smuts, Lord Halifax and Mr. Lippmann are rebuked for saying, with more or less frankness, that a nation without a policy may perish...
Toronto's moderately Conservative Saturday Night, summed up Mr. Bracken's position: "His nightly prayer must be a desperate petition that his less restrainable followers be stricken dumb until the Halifax speech is forgotten. If they can only be kept quiet there is a possibility that the question of whether Canada should enter into a sort of consultative alliance with other nations of the Commonwealth may be considered in an atmosphere of reason, free from the exaggerations of an electoral campaign...
...were dead in Ottawa, three in Toronto, three in Halifax, one in Vancouver, from drinking industrial alcohol, shaving lotions, hair tonics, paint removers...