Word: saskatchewaners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week. Month ago George Miksch Sutton, onetime Pennsylvania game commissioner, and John Bonner Semple, retired Sewickley, Pa. manufacturer of Navy ordnance* were 40 mi. north of Churchill on the western shore of Hudson's Bay. With them were Olin S. Pettingill of Bowdoin College and Bert Lloyd, Saskatchewan ornithologist. They were collecting birds, plants and insects. Competing with them was a party of the Canadian Ornithological Society. Hope of both groups was to be the first to find eggs of a Harris's sparrow...
...cotton purchaser with his Southern sales receipts. The War started cotton on its historic climb to 40? per Ib. Mr. Wrigley sold without loss (he has never admitted making a profit). Again last December he announced the same barter plan for wheat in the Canadian provinces of Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta. His company promised to buy out of its sales receipts 1,000,000 bu. at not more than 65? per bu. By last week 500,000 bu. had been thus purchased at an average price of 55? per bu. Meantime Wrigley gum sales in the region have increased...
...Issue. Just as U. S. Republicans and Democrats stand broadly for much the same things, so do Canadian Conservatives and Liberals. There is a little ''religious issue" up in Saskatchewan (the Catholics claiming that Protestant Bennett is abetting the Canadian Ku Klux Klan) but this is scarcely of Dominion importance. Down east in Quebec there is the issue of "conscription." Canada had a Conservative government during the War. Its members forced conscription upon all Canada, against the bitter protests of Quebec. After the War, Quebeckers (who had been called "cowards" by their ancient Ontario enemies) turned Liberal and have stayed...
...real issue has nothing to do with Saskatchewan Catholics, Quebec farmers or Ontario's industrial proletariat. The na- tional issue is the Canadian tariff...
William Nickerson Bates Jr. OcC., of Philadelphia, and Ferdinand Wilmerding Coudert '30, of New York City, were judged winners of the first and second Bowdoin prizes, respectively. In the graduate division, Edwin Roosa 2G, of New York City, and Charles Wayland Lightbody 1G, of Yorkton, Saskatchewan were given these prizes. The Bowdoin awards are given for dissertations in English of about 8000 words in length, on any approved subject. Besides cash awards, the winners receive bronze medals, and their names will be printed on the Commencement programs...