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| | Robert Borden - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Borden appointed the following Justices to the Supreme Court of Canada: | | | Sir Robert Laird Borden, PC, KC, GCMG, DCL, LL.D (June 26, 1854 – June 10, 1937) was the eighth Prime Minister of Canada from October 10, 1911, to July 10, 1920, and the third Nova Scotian to hold this office. | | | Borden became the senior partner in fall 1889 when he was only 35 following the departure of Graham and Tupper for the bench and politics. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Borden
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| | MSN Encarta - Robert Borden |
| | Borden started a law practice in Kentville, Nova Scotia, and in 1882 was invited to join one of the largest law firms in Halifax. | | | Although the Tupper government was defeated at the polls, Borden was elected and went to Parliament as a member of the opposition. | | | In 1890 Borden became the senior partner of his law firm. |
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http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/refpages/RefArticle.aspx?refid=761577089
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| | Borden, Sir Robert Laird |
| | The eighth prime minister of Canada, Borden was a Halifax lawyer, leader of the Liberal-Conservative Party 1901-20, architect of the Conservative victory in the "Reciprocity Election" of 1911, PM during WWI and a leading figure in the achievement of "Dominion Status" and the transition from the British Empire to the British Commonwealth of Nations. | | | Borden was a self-made man. After a brief formal education, he spent 5 years teaching at private academies in Nova Scotia and New Jersey. | | | Borden, Sir Robert Laird, lawyer, politician, prime minister of Canada, 1911-20 (b at Grand Pré, NS 26 June 1854; d at Ottawa 10 June 1937). |
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http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0000885
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| | Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online |
| | Most of Borden's work was on referral of appeals to the Supreme Court in Halifax or in Ottawa, and in 1893 he appeared for the first time before the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in London. | | | Borden had one plank to put to the people: a pledge to amend the constitution and have an elected Senate. | | | Monk, like Borden, was a lawyer who had first been elected in 1896 and, again like his chief, he was serious, earnest, and moody. |
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http://www.biographi.ca/EN/ShowBio.asp?BioId=42133
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| | Borden-Biography-First Among Equals |
| | Borden was called to the Bar in 1878, and proceeded to establish himself as a successful lawyer in partnership with Charles Hibbert Tupper, son of the future Conservative Prime Minister, Charles Tupper. | | | Prime Minister Sir Robert Borden began his political career as a staunch Imperialist, and during his years as Leader of the Opposition he frequently criticized Sir Wilfrid Laurier's policies concerning Britain. | | | Robert Laird Borden was born in Grand Pré, Nova Scotia in 1854. |
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http://www.collectionscanada.ca/primeministers/h4-3206-e.html
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| | Sir Robert Borden |
| | Borden was drafted at the age of 58, in the election of 1911, he ran against Laurier and his Liberals. | | | Although he did not attend university, Borden did gain employment in a law office and once again, due to hard work, he was able to learn the business and establish himself as a lawyer of note in Halifax. | | | With the Liberal secessionist movement of Nova Scotia, being led by Charles Tupper, attempting to take the Province out of Canada, Borden rebelled against his families long standing support of the party and he became a Conservative. |
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http://www.canadahistory.com/sections/politics/PRIMEMINISTERS/Sir_Robert_Borden.htm
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| | Sir Robert Laird Borden |
| | Borden was by this time one of Halifax's leading citizens, and Prime Minister Sir Charles Tupper convinced him to run in the 1896 election as a Conservative. | | | Borden retired from politics in 1920, concentrating on his various business affairs, writing his memoirs, and holding the Chancellorship of Queen's University. | | | In the 1911 election, the main issue was free trade with the United States, which Borden opposed, and his government defeated that of Sir Wilfred Laurier. |
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http://www.queensu.ca/secretariat/History/people/borden.html
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| | Departemental History |
| | Robert Borden was born in the bucolic atmosphere of Grand Pré, Nova Scotia, in 1854. | | | He also quickly reassured the United States that his party's outburst of anti-Americanism during the election campaign did not represent the attitude of his government. | | | Conservatives lost again in 1900, party leader Sir Charles Tupper resigned, and a reluctant Borden was chosen to succeed him in 1901. |
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http://www.dfait-maeci.gc.ca/department/history/borden-en.asp
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| | First World War.com - Who's Who - Sir Robert Borden |
| | Finally leaving office on 10 July 1920 Borden attended the Washington Naval Disarmament Conference in 1921 as Canadian delegate and served on the League of Nations council in 1930. | | | Prime Minister - Canada's eighth - throughout the war, Borden (who was knighted in 1914) practised a policy of complete support for the British war effort. | | | Teaching classics and mathematics in New Jersey in 1873 he returned the following year to Nova Scotia to study law, becoming articled to a Halifax law firm. |
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http://www.firstworldwar.com/bio/borden.htm
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| | F0267 - Robert Laird Borden fonds |
| | Robert Laird Borden (1854-1937), lawyer and politician, was raised in Halifax where he became a lawyer and Conservative Party politician. | | | He became leader of the party in 1901 and led it to victory in the national election of 1911, remaining Prime Minister until his retirement in 1920. | | | Borden served as Prime Minister during World War I. He promoted the cause of Canadian nationhood within the British Empire. |
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http://archivesfa.library.yorku.ca/fonds/ON00370-f0000267.htm
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| | Robert Borden |
| | Robert Borden was born in Nova Scotia in 1854. | | | The electorate turned against Wilfred Laurier as a result of a trade agreement with the United States and Borden became prime minister in October 1911. | | | He became a lawyer and politician and in 1901 became leader of the Conservative Opposition in the Canadian parliament. |
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http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/FWWbordenR.htm
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| | BORDEN Genealogy |
| | Thomas BORDEN, yeoman, was of the Parish of Headcorn, County Kent, England. | | | Benjamin BORDEN, II, the second of ten children, was born 6 April 1675 at Middletown, Monmouth County, New Jersey. | | | Abigail was the mother of all his children: Richard BORDEN (1672-1751), Benjamin BORDEN, II, (1675-1743), James BORDEN (1677-1727), Rebecca BORDEN (b. |
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http://www.thecolefamily.com/hobby/borden.htm
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| | Borden, Sir Robert Laird on Encyclopedia.com |
| | As prime minister, Borden headed a Conservative government until 1917 and a Union (coalition) government until his resignation in 1920. | | | BORDEN, SIR ROBERT LAIRD [Borden, Sir Robert Laird] 1854-1937, Canadian political leader, prime minister during World War I, b. | | | He led the opposition until 1911, when Sir Wilfrid Laurier's Liberal government fell. |
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http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/B/Borden-R1.asp
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| | Resources - Lizzie Borden Quarterly by Issue |
| | Article reporting the retrial of the Lizzie Borden murder case by the Stanford Law School, with the Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court presiding, along with an Associate Justice. | | | Ryckebusch reports on his participation as a jury member in the retrial of Lizzie Borden conducted by Stanford Law School, presided over by the Chief Justice and an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. | | | Transcription of the opening statement for the Commonwealth (William H. Moody) in the Trial of Lizzie Andrew Borden. |
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http://www.lizzieandrewborden.com/Resources/BibliographyLBQIssue.htm
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| | The Globe and Mail: Prime Ministers - He made it matter to be Canadian |
| | But Borden continued to assert Canadian sovereignty in other areas of foreign policy, establishing a Canadian legation in Washington, a minister plenipotentiary who would be resident in the British embassy, but receive his instructions from Ottawa. | | | Borden's many other achievements in office included universal suffrage - granting women the right to vote in 1918; the establishment of the Civil Service Commission, the Wheat Board and the Canadian Tariff Commission; and the rescue of Laurier's bankrupt trans-continental railways. | | | His nation, he snapped, had `lost more men killed in France than Portugal had put in the field.' " |
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http://www.theglobeandmail.com/series/primeministers/stories/rb-20020126.html
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| | CNEWS Politics: Robert Borden |
| | Borden was prime minister throughout World War I and during the war years his government was accused of scandal over British munitions contracts and its staunch support of the Ross Rifle--a weapon known to jam in battle. | | | He was admitted to the Nova Scotia bar in 1878, | | | He served as leader of the Opposition until 1911, when he led his party to victory in the Sept. 21 election. |
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http://cgi.canoe.ca/CNEWSPolitics/borden_robert.html
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| | Robert Borden - Sir Robert Laird Borden - Canadian History |
| | Borden, Sir Robert Laird (1854-1937) prime minister of Canada (1911-20), was born at Grand Pré, Nova Scotia, on June 26, 1854, the son of Andrew Borden. | | | Robert Borden - Sir Robert Laird Borden - Canadian History |
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http://www2.marianopolis.edu/quebechistory/encyclopedia/RobertBorden-SirRobertLairdBorden-CanadianHistory.htm
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| | Sir Robert Borden -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | A statesman who helped transform Canada from a colony into a nation, Robert Laird Borden was Canada's prime minister during World War I. Borden's commitment to an international role for Canada was largely responsible for the government's vigorous war measures, including a policy of conscription, during those years. | | | Canadian statesman who became prominent as minister of trade and commerce in the Sir Robert Laird Borden government (1911–20), which gained increasing recognition for Canada in international affairs. | | | This and his picturesque personality made him popular throughout Canada, and he led the young country in a 15-year period of great development. |
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http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9080712
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| | Sir Robert Borden |
| | During World War I his ministry maintained vigorous Canadian support of the efforts of the Allies and obtained for members of the Commonwealth of Nations a voice in British policymaking. | | | Grand Pré, N.S. He studied law in Halifax and became a leading attorney in Nova Scotia. | | | BORDEN, Sir Robert Laird (1854-1937), Canadian statesman, born in |
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| | Is Robert Borden the Right Man for the Job? - Oct. 2004 |
| | Texas AandM University announced on August 2 that Deputy Secretary of State Richard L. Armitage would be a speaker at one of the August 13 commencement ceremonies. | | | Is Robert Borden the Right Man for the Job? | | | Borden was certainly not being courteous towards me, I saw no reason to seek his prior ok. [Readers can see the e-mail exchanges for themselves at www.rtis.com/touchstone/borden.html. |
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http://www.rtis.com/touchstone/oct2004/09.html
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| | Centennial Transcript |
| | Stickney, Robert T. Davis, Edmund Chase, Danforth Horton, Wm. | | | Jennings, A. Easton, Arnold B. Chace, Robert T. Davis, Simeon Borden, James M. Aldrich, N.B. Borden, Alphonso S. Covel, John Campbell, Jos. | | | Directors: Jefferson Borden, Holder B. Durfee, John S. Brayton, William B. Durfee, Richard B. Borden |
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http://ccbit.cs.umass.edu/Lizzie/images/documents/L0040F02.html
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| | Prime Ministers of Canada - 1867 to Date |
| | *The Borden Military Reserve (Just south of the Village of Angus, Ossa Township, Simcoe County, Ontario) is NOT named after the former Prime Minister, but after Sir Frederick Borden, Laurier's militia minister (1896-1911). | | | On July 14, 1915, Borden was the first Canadian PM to attend a British Cabinet meeting | | | The name was changed to Borden Canadian Forces Base with the unification of the armed forces, in 1968. |
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http://www.parl.gc.ca/information/about/people/key/pm/index.asp?lang=E¶m=bio&id=8
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| | Borden |
| | Sir Robert Laird Borden, a unilingual Conservative lawyer born in Grand-Pre, Nova Scotia in 1854, became his party's leader in 1901, endured electoral setbacks in 1904 and 1908, and became prime minister following the Conservative victory of 1911. | | | Borden was succeeded as party leader and Prime Minister in 1920 by Arthur Meighen. | | | Following the advent of war, Borden -- as Jane Plotke has noted -- undertook a technological revolution in governance and sailed to Britain, from which he maintained contact with his cabinet via transatlantic cable while he kept an eye upon the conduct of the war. |
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http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/wwi/bio/b/borden.html
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| | The Prime Ministers of Canada - Wilfrid Laurier Biography |
| | Robert Laird Borden was Canada's eighth prime minister. | | | The end of the war in November 1918 destroyed the reason for unionism and the Union government weakened; it ended in 1920 with Borden's retirement. | | | Laurier was utterly loyal to Britain's efforts in the First World War, but he refused to support Robert Borden's Union government and conscription. |
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http://www.primeministers.ca/laurier/bio_7.php
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| | The Globe and Mail: Prime Ministers - State funeral set for Diefenbaker |
| | Earlier in the day the British Government had cabled its sorrow to Lady Borden, and the Prime Minister sent the following meesage to Senator Dandurand at Ottawa: | | | Speaking for Australia, Prime Minister Joseph A. Lyons paid tribute to Sir Robert as "a Statesman who played a great part in Empire affairs." | | | Sir Robert Laird Borden, who died in the early morning of his eighty-third birthday. |
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http://www.theglobeandmail.com/series/primeministers/stories/obit-RB.html
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| | RIT - News & Events: Borden joins NTID |
| | Borden is a member of the National Association for School Financial Aid Administrators and the National Association for College Admission Counseling. | | | Borden served as the director of financial aid and assistant director of admissions/enrollment analyst at the Eastman School of Music of the University of Rochester since 1994. | | | He also served as director of career planning and placement and assistant dean of students there from 1989-1993. |
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http://www.rit.edu/~930www/NewsEvents/2001/Aug02/borden.html
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| | William Orpen's Portrait of Sir Robert Laird Borden |
| | Sir Robert Borden (1854-1937) was Prime Minister of Canada from 1911 to 1920, leading the nation during the gruelling years of the First World War. | | | Both artist and subject were emotionally and physically exhausted, Borden as wartime leader of a nation that had lost 60,000 men, and Orpen, who had been a war artist. | | | Sir William Orpen's Portrait of Sir Robert Laird Borden |
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http://www.jssgallery.org/Other_Artists/William_Orpen/Portrait_of_Sir_Robert_Laird_Borden.htm
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| | Sir Wilfred Laurier Quiz Answers |
| | He was born in Grand Pre, Nova Scotia, His parents were Andrew Borden and Eunice Jane Laird. | | | Sir Robert Laird Borden was Prime Minister from 19-11-1920 (Oct. 10, 1911 to July10,1920). | | | Sir Robert Laird Borden become Prime Minister at 58. |
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| | Robert Borden - Canadian Heritage Gallery |
| | Sir Robert Borden (1854-1937) was born in Nova Scotia, provincial member for Halifax, federal Conservative leader from 1901, and Prime Minister, 1911-1920. | | | You can order reproductions of this image as a Print, suitable for framing, produced on 38# photo-quality paper. | | | Click here to view a larger picture; to return, use your browser's back button. |
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| | Robert Borden, Problem of an efficient Civil Service (1931) |
| | "Sir Robert Borden: The Government, in respect to appointments to the public service, is responsible to Parliament; Parliament is responsible to the people. | | | These figures, supplied by the Secretary of the Civil Service Commission, relate to 1926, and are taken from his address to the Citizens' Research Institute of Canada, at Winnipeg, September, 1926. | | | Robert Borden, Problem of an efficient Civil Service (1931) |
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| | Robert Borden Monument |
| | Prime Minister Sir Robert Borden, a great internationalist, | | | Robert Laird Borden, Prime Minister of Canada 1911-1920, was born at Grand Pre, | | | Sir Robert Laird Borden by Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade |
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| | Robert Laird Borden: His Memoirs - Questia Online Library |
| | Robert Laird Borden: His Memoirs - Questia Online Library | | | Publication Information: Book Title: Robert Laird Borden: His Memoirs. | | | Contributors: Henry Borden - editor, Robert Laird Borden - author. |
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| | Sir Robert Laird Borden (1854-1937), Prime Minister of Canada |
| | Statesmen of World War I (includes the Maharaja of Bikaner; Sir Robert Laird Borden; Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour; Andrew Bonar Law; Edward Patrick Morris, Baron Morris; Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener of Khartoum; Sir Jose...) | | | Sir Robert Laird Borden (1854-1937), Prime Minister of Canada | | | The online database contains information on 87,077 works, 48,964 of which are illustrated; the National Portrait Gallery's collection includes over 330,000 works. |
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| | Sir Robert Laird Borden |
| | Teacher, professor, lawyer, and later Chancellor of Queen's University (1924-1930), Robert Borden was a Conservative Member of Paliament from 1896 to 1904 and again from February 4, 1905 to July, 1920. |
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http://freemasonry.bcy.ca/biography/prime_ministers/borden_r/borden_r.html
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| | Subsequently, the Robert March and Mildred Borden Hanes Professorship in the Kenan-Flagler Business School was established. | | | The Robert March and Mildred Borden Hanes Professorship in Business Administration was established in 1983 by the Mildred Borden and Robert March Hanes Foundation Trust. | | | Mildred Hanes created the trust in 1959 to honor her late husband, Robert March Hanes, and to perpetuate his interest in the growth and improvement of the University, particularly its School of Business Administration. |
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http://carolinafirst.unc.edu/distprofs/hanesrm.htm
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| | Letters, 1917-1919, are largely from Robert March Hanes during his service as an | | | Robert March Hanes (1890-1959) was a North Carolina banker, legislator, government official, and business and civic leader. | | | Letters, 1917-1919, are largely from Robert March Hanes during his service as an officer with the first and second armies during World War I; they provide detailed descriptions of military life. |
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http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/inv/ead2/04534.xml
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| | Robert Borden, Meat Dreams |
| | Robert Borden grew up in the chicago area during the 1950s and 1960s. | | | He is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee and currently manages an art gallery in New Mexico. | | | He was honorably discharged from the USMC in 1969 as a Lance Corporal. |
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http://lists.village.virginia.edu/sixties/HTML_docs/Texts/Poetry/Borden_Meat_Dreams.html
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| | Legion of Honour, Grand Cross Awarded to Prime Minister Robert Borden ca. |
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| | Sir Robert Borden |
| | Sir Robert Borden S.S. Sir Robert Borden High School is served by regular route 172 as well as peak Routes 67 and 181 travel on Greenbank. | | | Full time students are entitled to discount passes. |
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| | Emails between Robert Borden and Danny Yeager |
| | The following is email correspondence between The Bryan-College Station Eagle's staff -- mostly Robert Borden, Opinions Editor -- and Danny Yeager, who organized a demonstration against Richard Armitage, the speaker at the 2 PM Texas AandM commencement ceremony on August 13. | | | Donnis Baggett is the publisher of The Eagle and is Opinion Page Editor Robert Borden's boss.] | | | convictions (see Borden, Robert "Poor Judgment to Blame for Cartoon," |
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