Word: toronto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Sir Albert Edward Gooderham, 73, Canadian distiller-philanthropist (Gooderham & Worts); of a streptococcus infection; in Toronto. During the War his firm produced for the British Government 75% of all the acetone (used in cordite) made in the Empire...
...Toronto the Imperial Order of the Daughters of the Empire hired Ming-Toy, a dancer formerly at London's Kit Kat Club, for their annual ball last week, forbade her at the last moment to dance in her usual costume, silver paint. Undaunted Ming-Toy did a sinuous, undulating fan dance before the Imperial Daughters of the British Empire, then, at the last moment, showed what she thinks of them by raising her fans and standing starkly revealed in red underdrawers...
...Montreal, the Montreal Maroons, famed as the best defensive team in the National Hockey League, last week skated out to play the third game of the final series for the Stanley Cup against the Toronto Maple Leafs. Overcautious because they had already lost the first two games, the Maple Leafs started slowly. The Maroons started fast, finished faster. When the game was over, they had the Stanley Cup and the world's championship...
...Toronto, somebody threw the body of a middle-aged woman in through a window in the reading room of the University of Toronto library. Newspapers reported: "Police are working on a murder theory...
Hepburn because he was a thoroughgoing Liberal and a close friend and adviser of the late Sir Adam Beck, "father of Hydro." As early as 1888 Mr. Lyon was editing a paper called the Labour Reformer. For 40 years he was with the Toronto Globe-as reporter, city editor, associate editor, finally director. During the War he went to the front with Canadian troops as a crack correspondent. Now 68, ruddy-cheeked, snowy-haired, blue-eyed, he speaks with a broad Scottish accent, is a stern prohibitionist...