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Vancouver is a boom city as civic-conscious as the U. S. cities across the border. Fed, like them, by lumber, mines, wheat and fish, mainland Vancouver has grown fast, while older snobbish Victoria on Vancouver Island across the Strait of Georgia has hugged its reputation as "a little bit of England on the shores of the Pacific." In 1885, when the Canadian Pacific Railway reached the coast, insular Victoria looked down on the brawling mill town of Gastown, named for a saloonkeeper, "Gassy Jack" Deighton. To the rage of Victoria's aristocrats, Canadian Pacific officials renamed Gastown Vancouver...
...yarn came in from McFaul it was written in a kind of wooden style. So I polished it up a bit before sending it along to the Boston Herald. Of course, if I was writing for the New York Sun, I'd have polished it up a bit more. ... As a matter of fact the way the story came through it said six kinds of pie, but I jacked it up to eight. I figured the story must be pretty near right. There isn't anybody in Washington County [_i. e., 'Quoddy, Perry, Calais] with enough brains...
...hear anyone so I thought I had better have a peek. . .. They thought I could sprint only about the last 70 metres and weren't prepared when I started my run. I think I could have sustained it for another 100 metres if necessary. ... I was a bit wound up, wasn...
Concerning your article on Pledge Brown (TIME, July 20), may I add my bit to this collection of Browniana...
...Topeka all the Landon advisers except Ralph Robey, who lives at the Jayhawk Hotel where the others have their offices, are housed next door to the Executive Mansion. Hard-working and closemouthed, they are not seen much outside home, office or State House. Valiantly doing their bit to dispel the impression that Nominee Landon has copied the Roosevelt brain trust, they also keep out of the nation's eye. There have been no more public statements from them since Charlie Taft's comment on the summons to revolt which Al Smith & Co. sent to the Democratic Convention...