Word: toronto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...found capital even scarcer. Then a plan to make money, or attract backers, by a spectacular flight in a Lockheed fell through. Finally he drew from his small balance of life savings, bought the Puss Moth in Canada, got enough odd jobs in Toronto and New York to pay for the keep of himself and his plane. After long, secret tests he hopped for Jamaica to begin a desperate bid for enough fame to rehabilitate him commercially...
...dismal drizzle last week 17,000 people entered Toronto's Maple Leaf Gardens, newest and largest auditorium in Canada. Outside and in nearby streets, traffic was tied up; anxious to get in, 20,000 to 25,000 more milled about for two hours. With streamer headlines the Toronto Daily Mail & Empire reported the exciting event as "the largest indoor gathering ever held in Canada." Editorially it asked, "Does This Mean Coming Religious Revival?" For in Maple Leaf Gardens was no hockey game, no prize fight or revival meeting but a Bible Class-one which had, six years ago, only...
...Bible Class in 1925 was a rich, handsome (6 ft. 3) in., 215 Ib.) young man, Denton Massey, 31. grandson of the founder of Massey-Harris Co., Ltd., largest maker of farm implements in the British Empire. Graduate of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Founder Massey is a kinetic, athletic Toronto socialite who worked in the shops and harvest fields of the family company before becoming an official in the Toronto factory. He is reputedly worth $1,000,000. A practical Christian, he is now a mild Socialist. Like Erdman ("Erd") Harris (also Toronto-born), Denton Massey appeals to youth...
...Plainville, Conn., C. R. Cherington, N. Y. City, J. A. Christenson, Concord, F. F. Clapp, Cambridge, E. W. Clark, West Roxbury, D. C. Clos, New York City, E. A. Crane, Cambridge, H. Crocker, Brookline, J. Depopolo, Westfield, D. B. Doherty, Jr., Cambridge, J. V. Doolin, Somerville, P. F. Dur. Toronto, Canada, J. S. Egel, Lynn...
...Murphy, Milton, R. H. Nagles, Brighton, D. Newton, Westboro, D. L. Oliver, Atlanta, Ga., W. C. Panuzio, Cambridge, J. G. Patterson, Evanston, Ill., R. M. Pearson, Jr., Somerville, E. H. Perkins, Bantam, Conn., C. F. Peterson, Cambridge, A. S. Pier, Jr., Concord, N. B., E. C. R. Pollock, Toronto, Canada, R. Porter, Quincy, J. Prescott, Fall River, D. R. Procopio, Brockton, R. J. Purcell, Pleasantville, N. Y., W. J. Pyles, Rio de Janetro, Brazil, A. B. Read, Jr., Washington, D. C., J. J. J. Reddy, Amesbury, R. C. Rial, Wilkinsburgh, Pa., R. C. Rockwell, Carpenterio, Calif., C. E. Ryan...