Word: tilley
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Last week in the Province of New Brunswick came a preliminary test. If the Conservative Premier's New Deal was catching on with Canada's masses, Mr. Bennett could hope that when New Brunswick elected its provincial legislature Conservative New Brunswick Premier Leonard Percy de Wolfe Tilley would win enough votes to carry on as Hooverish Mr. Bennett hopes to carry...
Enigmatically New Brunswick's masses marched to the polls. When their ballots were counted glum Conservative Tilley was forced to resign and in as Premier breezed Liberal Allison A. Dysart. This made New Brunswick the fifth of Canada's nine provinces to "turn the Conservatives out." Only the smallest province, Prince Edward Island, which will vote this month, remains Conservative. In Ottawa discouragement among Conservatives was so acute that within the Party there was talk that Mr. Bennett might abruptly retire and put in the field some other Conservative whom Canada's mob had not become accustomed...
...idealist. My first contacts with the Soviet spy organization were in New York and in Washington. They saw how keen I was and arranged for me to go to Moscow in the guise of an aviation instructor. When I returned to America I met my wife, Marjory Tilley. She was a student at Vassar. She was only 19. We got married and she agreed to come to Europe and help...
...Marjory Tilley Switz was revealed at the trial to have received 90,000 francs ($5,900), thus ending reports that she "spied for pure excitement and thrill...
SOLD OUT TO THE FUTURE-Roy Hilton -Harper ($2.50). An argument against posterity, by the novelist author of Nitchey Tilley...