Word: canadians
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Storyteller: Captain John McLeod of the Shawnee, protesting to the Canadian Government...
Storyteller: Rear Admiral Frederick C. Billard, Coast Guard Commandant. Accounts varied as to whether the encounter took place 16 or 26 miles off New York. In either case international complications seemed likely-more serious perhaps than those resulting from the sinking of the Canadian rumrunner I'm Alone last spring (TIME, April 1). The I'm Alone was allegedly "hotly pursued" from within the 12-mile limit. The null was without doubt fired upon almost instanter and her whereabouts at the time will make a great difference...
...James Henry ("Jim") Thomas, Lord Privy Seal, Minister in Charge of Unemployment, returned to England last week aboard the Canadian Pacific Duchess of Atholl from his four-week visit to Canada. His mission, to alleviate British unemployment by selling British goods, chiefly coal, to loyal Canadians, had been slightly impaired by reports of a big new coal field right in Canada (TIME, Sept. 23). Nevertheless "Jim" Thomas was pleased with himself and as the Duchess of Atholl docked he said to the press: "I feel sure that the sequel will be that Canada will buy from us a large amount...
...Specifically I may say that the chiefs of the Canadian railways have agreed to place orders for British coal in larger amounts than they have in the past...
...know, I offered jobs to Sir Henry Thornton, President of the Canadian National Railways, and to E. W. Beatty, President of the Canadian Pacific Railway, to come over here to reorganize our railways for us, but of course I made it plain that it was only a joke...