Word: canada
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...agree with your Commerce Department ruling. They are very far behind the times. . . . The ruling is as good as saying that flying is not safe." Minister Cot managed to remain gracious, denied that he would try to arrange a race to Paris from Buenos Aires or Canada...
...charges of 1912 and 1937 were identical. In 1912, he declared, the Government had only sought to restrain Aluminum Co. from, certain monopolistic practices; now it was trying to dissolve the company. Since 1912 the company had expanded and extended its control of the market, establishing Aluminum Ltd. of Canada "to prevent competition from abroad." The consent decree of 1912 was still in effect, returned Alcoa counsel, and there was not one charge in the Manhattan suit which if proved would not render the company in contempt of the Pittsburgh court. Even so, pursued Attorney Jackson, he and his associates...
...Drawing Room in St. James's Palace for an Imperial Conference with the four gentlemen who are his legal equals. New Zealand's Laborite Prime Minister Michael Joseph Savage, South Africa's General James Barry Munnik Hertzog, Australia's Joseph Aloysius Lyons and Canada's William Lyon Mackenzie King under the 1931 Statute of Westminster are just as much the King-Emperor's advisers as England's Baldwin. Invited also was Ireland's gaunt Eamon de Valera, who refused to attend. In Dublin's St. Stephen's Green day after...
This was only one of three items on the agenda for the Conference, others being "Constitutional Questions" and "Trade, Shipping, and Air Communications." Mr. Baldwin, Imperial Conferences being the delicate things they are, had to bide his time. First Canada's King wanted to know what Great Britain intended to do about the preferential trade agreements signed between the Dominions and the mother country at the Imperial Conference at Ottawa in 1932. Since then Canada has signed a reciprocal trade treaty with the U. S. and Secretary Hull has been pressing Stanley Baldwin with requests for a reciprocal treaty...
What Stanley Baldwin wanted from his colleagues was some assurance that they would help meet the expense of arming the Empire. His trump card, the British Navy, has been worth least in Canada, more in South Africa where he hopes to trade on it for a Dominion-supported air force, most of all in New Zealand and Australia. In 26 years, Australia has spent $350,000,000 on naval defense, largely on her nine warships and the defenses of her home ports, facts on which Colleague Lyons cannily harped last week. With the British Navy in the Atlantic...