Word: canadians
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Quebec and the Maritime Provinces are either hostile or indifferent. A complicating issue is hydro-electric power. Canada fears that the U. S. will secure control of most of the St. Lawrence power sites, with no chance for Canada to increase its share to meet future needs. Said one Canadian newspaper: "What Uncle Sam has he holds. Our whole relationship with our big neighbor proves that truism." Radio. "Sheer presumption," declared Arthur 0. Smith, Canadian speaker to a Washington Rotary Club last week, was the U. S. Radio Commission's assignment of a mere handful of radio wavelengths...
Newsprint. Some 90% of Canada's woodpulp and paper production goes to the U. S. International Paper & Power Co., a U. S. concern with holdings in the Dominion (see p. 40), has developed such a grip over the U. S. supply that last year the threat of a Canadian embargo made U. S. newspaper publishers shudder...
Annexation has lost its political potency in Canada and in its place has been raised a cry against the "Americanization" of the Dominion. ''Americanization" runs from U. S. bathtubs to U. S. comic strips, each item of which is at one time or another anathematized in the Canadian press, pulpit and political forum...
...broker advised him to buy some common shares of Hiram Walker, Inc. To Mr. Dyer's delight, the stock went up to 93⅞. He held on. Then the shares slid down to 66. Not until then did Mr. Dyer learn, he says, that Hiram Walker is a Canadian whiskey stock. His shock and grief at losing his money were exceeded only by his vexation at learning he had become involved in a liquor business. He sold his stock at a loss and, last week, wrote a letter of protest to the New York Curb Association, the market where...
...Japan sent representatives. So did Australia and New Zealand. No U. S. educators were officially present, although two were invited from the Adult Education Association; but their absence in no way diminished the grand manner or the importance of the meeting last week in Victoria and Vancouver of the Canadian National Council of Education...