Word: novas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sponsored by the National Federation of Canadian Universities, J. Ernest Richardson, of Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia, and William B. Morrisey, of the New Brunswick University, Fredericton, N. B., have been making a debating four of New England under the name of the Maritime Team...
Mackenzie King, having won Nova Scotia from the Conservatives in August 1933 won British Columbia in November. He scored a double victory in June 1934, winning from the Conservatives on that day both Saskatchewan and Ontario, whose new Liberal provincial Premier Mitchell ("Mitch") Hepburn bounded to notoriety as a Canadian Huey Long. This June the Liberals captured New Brunswick, and last week they swept Prince Edward Island, leaving not a single province in all Canada governed by Conservatives...
...himself up as a public utility expert. In 1921 he got hold of what is today the great Associated Gas & Electric System, modestly becoming its vice president and treasurer. Bit by bit he expanded it, snapping up one company here, another company there. Today the Philippines and Nova Scotia are on the fringe of his empire, while Tennessee and South Carolina are in its suburbs. Its heart is in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Hundreds of companies have passed through the hands of this master of corporate complexity. The number of companies he "eliminated" from his intricate...
Four days later they learned that the ketch Hamrah had dropped anchor at Sydney, Nova Scotia. Of her crew of six, three young New Englanders survived. They told how, eleven days out of Newport, her socialite owner and skipper, Robert R. Ames, had been washed overboard in a boiling mid-Atlantic sea. His Son Richard went after him with a line, was followed by Son Harry in a boat, which capsized. With Hamrah partly disabled, the survivors hove to for two days. Then Charles Tillinghast Jr. took the helm, managed to remember how to lay a course by a sextant...
...University of Chicago and was on the Faculty there until 1927 when he returned to Cambridge. He is a member of the American Oriental Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Linguistic Society of America, the Royal Asiatic Society, and the Society Asiatique. Born in Digby, Nova Scotia in 1881 he came to the United States...