Word: toronto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...However, when the remaining kidney which had thus sent the Hon. Mitchell ("Mitch") Frederick Hepburn flying so suddenly south was cured, he rejoiced with gusto that he had never, even in his most discouraged hours, resigned as Premier of Ontario and with whoops of redoubled vigor tore back to Toronto...
...Independent Liberal for a seat in the Federal House. His election was a stirring local triumph -because he was the first Liberal returned in 30 years by the county in which he stood. Ontario at that time had been mainly ruled by Conservatives for nearly a generation. Toronto had become the stronghold of Tories who felt so secure that years of niggling graft were heading the Province for a sudden, swift, pro-Liberal reaction to "throw the rascals out." It came soon, and ebullient young Mr. Hepburn could not have chosen more shrewdly the moment for his political debut. Increasingly...
...journalism, launched with the money of bleak, eccentric William Henry Wright, onetime butcher, soldier and prospector, today credited with having Canada's largest annual income ($6,000,000). This comes from the famed Wright-Hargreaves Mine, largely developed by Old Prospector Wright, who lives 90 miles north of Toronto in the small town of Barrie...
...Toronto, with 327 cases of polio thus far last week became the first community on the continent to test the worth of the Peet-Schultz prophylactic nasal spray (TIME Sept. 6 et ante), by applying it to a significant number of children. Led by the Hospital for Sick Children, all the city's hospitals opened clinics for application of the spray. Soon as newspapers announced the fact, 5,000 parents brought children to get the treatment...
...Toronto during the past fortnight was also the scene of some mechanical ingenuity. Hospital for Sick Children had only one mechanical respirator, and needed at least one more. The only professional manufacturers of this life-saving device are: Warren E. Collins, Inc. of Boston, which makes respirators designed by Professor Philip Drinker of Harvard's School of Public Health; and J. H. Emerson Co. of Cambridge, Mass., owned by John Haven Emerson, inventive son and namesake of New York City's onetime commissioner of health. The two companies long quarreled over patent infringements. Meanwhile, since 1929 only...