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...Pennsylvania Legislature, finally sailed through with 83 votes. Grover Cleveland got in with 77 votes, a comfortable margin over the necessary three-fifths but not enough to take second place from a dark horse, Simon Newcomb who polled 78. That distinguished U. S. mathematical astronomer was born in Nova Scotia in 1835, ran away to the U. S. when he was 18. A pushing lad, he forced himself on the attention of Harvard scientists, soon overshadowed them. The last 30 years of his life were spent building up anew the theory and tables of the planetary system as well...
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...