Word: macdonald
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...whole trick of the system is to work out several series of plays, for each contest, discarding that bunch when the game was over. According to Torbie Macdonald, one-time Crimson ace halfback, and captain, Lamar used almost nine tenths of the old Harlow play series in the game against Worcester last Saturday...
...When I was in the College," said Torbie Macdonald, captain of Harvard's 1939 football team, "I always wondered how old grads got that way. I never got enthusiastic about anything in Cambridge; Harvard was just another college. But out in the Pacific in a PT boat, I began to understand. I found myself hoping that when I returned home I'd find here still the traditions of the wonderful life...
Navy Minister Angus Lewis Macdonald, a lean Maritimer, slumped in his leather chair and studied the ceiling in Ottawa's press gallery. Then he sprang the news: back in 1941 the Dominion Government had committed itself to a Navy of at least 9,000 men after the war. Minister Macdonald himself thought a force of 15,000 would be "more likely ... [to] satisfy Canadians," hoped the nation would keep two cruisers, two carriers and eight destroyers in postwar fighting trim, with lesser craft to match...
Canadians had long known that their Navy was growing up. Minister Macdonald proudly told them just how big and useful a fighting force it had become in five years...
...which recently delivered a million-ton cargo to England. At the same time R.C.N. ships made up 30% of the general support units roaming the North Atlantic. Canada's is a small-ship Navy, greater in numbers than in gunpower: 20 destroyers, 45 frigates, 100 corvettes, 60 minesweepers, Macdonald said, though he admitted that he was purposely understating the figures. Britain still holds title to the Canadian-crewed aircraft carriers Puncher and Nabob, but last week Britain was rigging two cruisers to go to Canada's Navy as gifts. Fifty smaller ships were building at home in Dominion...