Word: novaes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...walkout of coal miners at Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, last month, was the subject of an interpellation in the House of Commons at Ottawa. Miss Agnes MacPhail asked if the Government intended to sit calmly "while thousands are starving in Cape Breton." James A. Robb, Minister of Finance, stated laconically that no change of policy was contemplated. The strike grew out of an attempt to apply a 10% wage cut, but did not become active until the coal company contended that the workers had overdrawn their credit at the company's supply stores, cut off further credit. Twelve thousand...
...boyhood was spent at Freetown, Prince Edward Island. He studied at London, Paris, and Edinburgh, taking a B.A, M.A. and Sc.D. He then obtained a traveling scholarship which took him to Heidelberg, Berlin, Gottingen and finally to Italy and Switzerland. In 1880, he took a professorship in Acadia College, Nova Scotia. Four years later, he went to Cornell as professor, and was President there from 1892 to 1920. In 1892 he became a U. S. citizen. He served as U. S. Minister to Greece and Montenegro in 1912-13. In 1921, having pretty well explored Europe and North America...
...other lecturer is Archibald MacMechan, Ph.D., LL.D., Professor of English literature at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia. In the Summer School, he will give courses on Shakespeare, Carlyle, and Tennyson. Professor MacMechan, a writer of distinction, and one of the best teachers of English in Canada, received his Doctor's degree in this country at Johns Hopkins University...
Left row-Guy Maier, Krnest Schelling, Lee Pattison, Sigismund Stojowski and Guiomar Nova...
...specific, and at the same time to shed light in dark places, I would draw your attention to your issue of Nov. 3, section Business and Finance, article on "Chain Hotels" that you speak of the "Admiral Beatty Hotel" being erected in St. Johns, Nova Scotia. There is no St. Johns in Nova Scotia. St. Johns is in Newfoundland. The Admiral Beatty Hotel is being erected not in Nova Scotia, but in St. John, New Brunswick, the well-known seaport, and one of the oldest cities in the Dominion...