Word: toronto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tugboat salvaged Miss England II. Her stern was cracked apart, her deck ripped off but her Rolls-Royce motors were practically undamaged. Her designer, Fred Cooper, declared she could be patched up and. with bigger motors, be made capable of 150 m. p. h. She was taken unrepaired to Toronto and placed, an equivocal exhibit of international sport, on view at the Canadian National Exhibition...
...grew colder as the contestants got past the breakwater into the body of the lake. In the first hour, 40 swimmers, most of them overcome by "toe cold," were hauled out and taken to an emergency hospital. Of the three who finished, George Young, a burly young man from Toronto who four years ago won the 26-mile Catalina Island marathon, was first. His coach, Johnny Walker, and a life guard pulled him out of the water at the finish and helped him through the crowd of 100,000 at the shore. His time...
...Margaret Ravior, Philadelphia long-distance swimmer: the annual women's ten-mile marathon on Lake Ontario, near Toronto, which she won for the first time a year ago. Her mother, watching the race from shore, was congratulated on her daughter's ability by a famed seagoing spectator, British Admiral of the Fleet Earl Jellicoe...
...advertising, 5? a copy. Unsold copies are included. Exempt would be educational, scientific, religious journals if they contain less than 20% advertising. Last week two periodicals took steps. They were Bernarr Macfadden's Love Story and Western Story. They made arrangements to have their Canadian editions printed in Toronto, thus avoiding the tariff. No big U.S. publications were expected to follow suit. If & when the tariff is levied, TIME will cost Canadians 20%. On the cover will be printed "Reason: tariff...
...stated topic of the World's Conference, which followed preliminary gatherings at Toronto last fortnight, was "Youth's Adventure with God." As is usual at such conferences, the Y. M. C. A. concerned itself chiefly with international problems on which it hopes that its busy world-wide membership may have some influence. Delegates from 50 countries last week passed resolutions calling for revision of the Versailles Treaty, abolition of tariff barriers, abolition of national armaments. The German delegation held separate meetings to draw up a resolution absolving Germany of sole War guilt, later endorsed by the other delegates...