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While the current high prices last, the Government plan is bound to work. But would it work if wheat fell to prewar prices? Some free-trading Canadians were sure that it would not. Then Canada might also find-as wheat-wise John Bracken, leader of the Conservatives, warned-that Canada's old customers were turning elsewhere. Some might well feel that they were not getting a fair deal under the multiple price plan...
...Vancouver, police swooped down on the East End Printers and Publishers, seized canceled checks and other documents, arrested two printers: Oswald Thomas, plant owner, and Robert Bracken, ex-owner. The charge: perjury. Their firm, said police, had printed price lists for Vancouver's United Distillers of Canada Ltd., considered the largest independently owned distillery in Canada, makers of Harwood's. These prices had been submitted to OPA in the U.S. as those in effect in December 1941 or January 1942, the base period for price ceilings. Using them as a base, OPA had set the U.S. price...
...Conservatives had made and would make the most of this issue. That they had done so well already was due to Conservative Leader John Bracken. Cried Toronto's Globe & Mail: "A personal Victory for Mr. John Bracken." It was indeed-and more. For the second time since he has led the party, Bracken had stumped so effectively that he had licked the Liberals on their home field. Many Conservatives, who had been lukewarm about Bracken's leadership, were now sold...
William Lyon Mackenzie King had not said he was going anywhere. Nevertheless, Conservative Leader John Bracken rose in the House of Commons one day last week and hoped that the Prime Minister would have a "satisfactory stay and an early return." Then the CCF Party's M. J. Coldwell jumped up, eyes atwinkle, to add his wish for "a fruitful visit to Great Britain." Having thus playfully baited the Prime Minister into talking, they settled back to hear what he would...
...Johnson won a Harvard Lampoon citation for the second year running. Last year he shared Worst Discovery honors with Frank Sinatra; now the Cantabrigian funnymen acclaimed his acting in Thrill of a Romance as the year's Worst Single Performance (male). Eddie Bracken was chosen Most Unamusing Comedian. Oscar Winner Joan Crawford, 38, was acclaimed Oldest Actress, with Joan Bennett, 36, getting honorable mention...