Word: toronto
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...swarthy, Canadian Rhodes Scholar, Gelber is a professional diplomat as well as an ex-professor. After teaching international relations at the University of Toronto, he joined the Royal Canadian Air Force in 1943, and worked in what he call "ricochet political warfare," before taking his present...
Because the "day of general thanksgiving to Almighty God for the bountiful crop and other blessings" fell on Monday this year, most Canadians made a long weekend of it. In Ontario, crisp, clear weather favored the football games- Hamilton's Tigers lost to Toronto's Argonauts, 13 to 1. Over the northern prairies lay a heavy overcast; "fowl weather," said the gunners, setting out to shoot geese or ducks for the holiday table. At Mile 450, on the railway to Churchill, the Rev. W, E. Williamson hoped to bag a caribou, planned to share the meat with...
...Laurent's Under Secretary, Lester Pearson, had already done an able job as chairman of the U.N. Assembly's special committee on Palestine. Last week, U.N. delegates talked about giving him that job again. But Minister St. Laurent sidestepped. "Mike" Pearson was needed at home. Said the Toronto Globe & Mail, acidly: "If Mr. Pearson could readily be spared from Ottawa, he would not be the kind of man whose services are in demand for major U.N. undertakings...
...Toronto's Financial Post, Sports Scribe Ronald Williams called them "shamateurs." The Canadian Rugby Union insisted they were amateurs. The Dominion's Revenue Department, which defines an amateur as a player "not signed to a professional contract," accepted the C.R.U.'s ruling. Result: big-time rugby teams will not have to pay the 20% federal amusement...
That did not end the argument as far as the issue of amateurism was concerned. As everyone knew, teams drawing bumper crowds were piling up receipts. Although club owners wouldn't talk, payments to players in eastern Canada's Big Four Union-Toronto Argonauts, Montreal Alouettes, Hamilton Tigers and Ottawa Rough Riders-reputedly ranged from $50 to $150 a game, with some players getting from $1,500 to $5,000 a season. In spite of the Revenue Department's ruling, Canada's rugger players seemed strictly professional...