Word: toronto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...peer before John Buchan goes to Canada in the early autumn; Canadians fervently prayed he would not. Canadian politicians promptly tried to impress one another with the fact that they had read Buchan's books and Canadian bookstores advertised the volumes they had in stock. Only the loyal Toronto Daily Star bridled: "It may be a little unseemly to be discussing so approvingly the selection of the next Governor-General in the presence of Lord Bessborough, but His Excellency will understand...
...Toronto, Mrs. Frances Lillian Kenny, 31, mother of 14, hopes to win $500,000 by bearing twins this year, and thus becoming beyond compare Toronto's most prolific woman (TIME...
...entrée was a bill introduced into the Ontario Legislature in Toronto making the Dionne quintuplets "wards of the King" (Minister of Welfare David Croll to be their "special guardian") and appointing two "active guardians," the State to hold the girls' income in trust until they are 18. Cried "Mitch," cracking down: "I am going to push this bill through without dotting an i or crossing...
Died. Professor John James Rickard MacLeod, 58, onetime Associate Dean of the Medical School of the University of Toronto where, with Sir Frederick Banting, he discovered insulin (pancreas serum, for treating diabetes) which won them the 1923 Nobel Prize in medicine; in Aberdeen, Scotland, at whose University he had been Regius Professor of Physiology since...
...Toronto's Royal York Hotel last week American shoe retailers from both sides of the border conventioned. Said Chicago Retailer O. J. McClure: "I hope you have no shoe salespeople in Canada who mispronounce names, call customers 'dearie,' hum and stare and make customers nervous...