Word: toronto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...political relations, Jimmy Dunn. Greeted on their arrival in Canada's capital by a squad of mounted police in scarlet tunics, the Hulls lunched with Governor-General Tweedsmuir at Government House, began a two-day round of official entertainments. From Ottawa, Prime Minister King accompanied them to Toronto, where Secretary Hull called on Ontario's bumptious Premier, Mitchell Hepburn. The extra-social purpose of Cordell Hull's visit was first indicated at a luncheon where he and Mackenzie King discussed what Mr. Hull called the "preservation of peace." A few hours later Mr. Hull, escorted...
...slap in the face to the C. I. O.-hating Premier came unexpectedly from Windsor and Toronto where David A. Croll and Arthur W. Roebuck, former Hepburn cabinet members who split with "Mitch" on the C. I. O. stand, were returned with large majorities...
...Toronto this week Lord Tweedsmuir called Dominion Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King into conference, and those two were expected to work out some robust Dominion scheme of cracking down on Premier Aberhart. One way would be simply to stall around until the collapse of Bible Bill's Social Credit regime which has gravely unbalanced the budget of the Province without ever paying a single $25 dividend...
...forehead is not war-gotten, but the mark of a bathroom skylight that fell on him.) He claims to have learned more about war from his post-War reporting of battles in the Near East than he ever did through his own soldiering. This reporting was done for the Toronto Star in the early '20s. Hemingway was by that time married (to Hadley Richardson, childhood Michigan friend), comfortably established in the Montparnasse quarter of Paris. In his spare time he diligently wrote the short stories later to be published as Three Stories & Ten Poems (1923), and in our time...
...Toronto Exchange fell sharply with the New York market. Next day Gladstone Murray, chairman of Canadian Broadcasting Corp., announced that stockmarket commentators would henceforth be banned from the air. Reason: "We've had too many complaints from people who've taken advice from some of these commentaries...