Word: toronto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Field Marshal Sir Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby, Viscount Allenby, stiff, soldierly hero of Palestine, reached Quebec bound for a reunion with Canadian War comrades at Toronto. Asked about another war, Lord Allenby pronounced: "The situation is like a number of small boys calling one another names across the street. One says, 'You come on over and fight in my yard.' The other says, 'You come on over and fight in mine.' The result, of course, is that nobody fights...
...less than one-half the total on the Stock Exchange. By last June the Board of Trade was handling nearly three times the dollar volume of the Big Board. Foreign brokers are planning to garner a good slice of whatever trading is driven from Manhattan by Federal regulation. Toronto Stock Exchange tickers in Manhattan Board rooms are multiplying. A few Canadian brokers have even established Manhattan branches. Talk of any large-scale diversion to foreign exchanges is not taken very seriously, but as a defensive measure the Street last week quietly debated the possibilities of running Big Board pools from...
...Empire's acting Premier (TIME, July 2). With Miss Ishbel MacDonald, faithful daughter and housekeeper, the Prime Minister sails this week aboard the Duchess of Richmond from Liverpool to vacation in Canada. According to Dr. L. A. Swann, a London eye specialist attending the American Optometric congress in Toronto last week, "Degeneration of the eye has set in. Both the Prime Minister's eyes have been attacked by glaucoma. Because the eye is unable to throw off its natural fluids it becomes hard through tension. Blindness may result...
Optimist. From Toronto, where he had attended the Optimists Clubs convention, flew Alex Mokher last week, bound for Florida and home. With him in the family cabin plane were his wife, his daughters Marjorie, 16. Dorothy, 9. Over Lexington, Ky., Father Mokher lost his bearings, decided to ask directions. Circling low over a country store, he slowed his motor, shouted to the proprietor. To hear better he circled lower, grazed a tree, struck some telephone wires, crashed. Of the Mokhers only Dorothy survived...
Throughout the U. S. 20,000 persons kill themselves each year. To deter them from suicide is the prime purpose in the life of Rev. Dr. Harry Marsh Warren of Manhattan, founder-president of the Save-a-Life League. To the Civitan International meeting in Toronto Life-Saver Warren declared: "Among professional men physicians are most inclined to take their own lives. . . . Not more than one-third of those who kill themselves are mentally deranged. Unmarried mothers have the greatest propensity for suicide. Love is the most terrible thing in the world. . . . Women have gone to the dogs...