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...What a lesson President Roosevelt, the hero of a nation, teaches the rulers of this country!" cried Canadian-born Baron Beaverbrook's London Daily Express. "President Roosevelt goes to war against the slump with warlike daring and wartime finance. His budget is in the Armageddon of 1918 class; it reminds you of Russia's Five-Year Plan...
...Montreal last week the fate of Canada's venerable Price Brothers & Co., Ltd. (newsprint) was finally settled. Suffering from the gutted newsprint market, Price Brothers defaulted on its bonds more than a year ago. Britain's potent publisher, Canadian-born Lord Beaverbrook, whose papers used Price newsprint and whose brother Allan Anderson Aitken was a director, tried his hand at reorganization but was blocked by the bondholders. Last April Price slipped into receivership. Other interests including Duke-Price Power (Aluminum Co. of America affiliate) wangled for control. Last week the bondholders committee sold Price Brothers to 55-year...
Between this week and Nov. 7, ten more States will definitely vote. So certain did Repeal appear that Montana's Canadian-born Governor Frank Henry Cooney decided voting would be a waste of time and money. Said he: "Montana won't need to vote. Repeal will be in the basket by Nov. 7 and we can save our $100,000 and use it to feed our needy people...
...American Bar Association reveals the shyster." "Bing" Bingay, probably the best known newsman in Detroit, knows intimately the ways of the police and of the sensational press. He grew up with many a bluecoat in Corktown, Detroit's Irish settlement, where he was raised (although he is Canadian-born, of Scotch descent). He knows sensational newspapers because for 30 years they have been his opposition (in the form of Hearst's Times, Macfadden's defunct Daily). At 17 "Bing" Bingay started as an office boy on the Scripps-founded Detroit News. He left as managing editor four...
...other U. S. Delegation wives to enter the Palace gardens without getting soaked. They and their husbands were presented to King George and Queen Mary under the great scarlet and gold durbar tent which is always dry. "The King and Queen were wonderful!" cried the wife of Canadian-born U. S. Senator Couzens, emerging from the tent. ''They are real people...