Word: windsor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Engaged. Louise Hunter, famed soprano of the Metropolitan Opera Company, Manhattan; to Henry Haven Windsor Jr., editor and publisher of Popular Mechanics magazine...
Sirs: TIME'S spicy, well written columns are marred by one thing. The magazine is too local. As a newsmagazine it should be more liberal, more cosmopolitan. Since when is Ontario an "American" State,- or Windsor a suburb of Detroit ? Since when is the business of Ontario NATIONAL AFFAIRS of the United States...
...foreign power, does not have the right to discriminate between two classes of Canadian citizens by admitting Canadian-born Canadians and putting foreign-born Canadians into an entirely different category, though both classes are equally citizens of Canada. Canadians affected are for the most part residents of Windsor, Ont., who daily cross the border to work in Detroit...
...Opening Day" in Ontario found no riots, no tremendous exodus from the U. S., no Detroit invasion of Windsor. It did find, however, interminable queues of applicants lined up before the liquor-store doors. The first U. S. citizen to make a purchase was one Fayette Bristol of Highland Park (Detroit suburb); Mr. Bristol toted away an undetermined quantity of Old Crow whiskey...
Scotch whiskey appeared in greatest demand. Though no figures on sales were given out, it was estimated that in Windsor alone about $6,500 worth of spirituous liquors were purchased, with hundreds in line when the government stores closed. Chairman Hanna admitted that there had been a "congestion," but denied that there had been a "rush...