Word: toronto
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Would Canadians like to see their country unite with the U.S.? In a poll of 17 prominent persons by Toronto's Financial Post, the answer was a decisive...
Gain or Obstacle? Labor's first reaction was mostly favorable. Said President Aaron Mosher of the Canadian Congress of Labor: "A good equivalent of the union shop." Elroy Robson, President of the C.C.L. Toronto Labor Congress, said the ruling was "worthy of the wisdom of a Solomon...
Management, for the most part, kept its thoughts to itself. But one business mouthpiece, Toronto's Financial Post, had an approving word: "A real step toward . . . full and mutually responsible partnership of management, labor and capital...
...Ontario branch of the Canadian Prisoners of War Relatives Association took over the entire convention floor of Toronto's bustling Royal York Hotel. Manager Jack Johnson battened down his furniture, opened the doors of his concert and banquet halls, and shuddered. Into the rooms swarmed 1,500 former captives, all of them hell-bent for a do. Among them were veterans of the fall of Hong Kong, wearing a gold "H.K." on a circular red patch; survivors of Dieppe; scores of airmen shot down over Hamburg, Berlin, Leipzig, Magdeburg and Stuttgart. Some of the celebrants had been flown...
General Dwight D. Eisenhower last week got his first honorary doctorate from a U.S. university (he already has degrees from Oxford, Toronto, Louvain and Belfast). Accepting an LL.D. from Boston University's veteran President Daniel L. Marsh, he asked a pointed question. Said...