Word: canadians
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Ralph D. Blumenfeld is 64 years old. He was born in the U.S., worked on Chicago and New York newspapers. Then he went to England and became editor of the London Daily Express-owned by the most potent of Canadian-born peers, Lord Beaverbrook. Editor Blumenfeld toured the U.S., this autumn, as guest of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Last week, back in London, he told of the one ineffaceable memory of his tour-Prohibition, "the greatest, most tragic joke any nation played upon itself in the history of civilization...
...much the smugglers and their customers spend is a matter for guesswork. But Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, U. S. Assistant Attorney-General, was able to put a figure, in her annual report, on at least one item-$18,883,541 worth (Canadian value) of Canadian whiskies exported to the U. S. in 1928. Previous years: 1925, 10.7 millions; 1926, 15.4 millions; 1927, 17.1 millions...
According to Dr. Doran and his men, smuggling by sea has been suppressed to one-eighth or one-fifth of what it used to be when Rum Rows twinkled off the coasts at Christmas time. According to Mrs. Willebrandt, the Canadian traffic "continues to be unsolved." It is on that front that the Prohibiters will work hardest next year. A step projected is to revise the U. S.-Canadian anti-smuggling treaty, which now provides only that Canada shall advise the U. S. of liquor clearances from her ports. Perhaps Canada will be induced to declare it illegal...
...step taken last week was the indictment, by the Federal Grand Jury in Buffalo of 30 Canadian distillers and their agents, including Board-Chairman Harry C. Hatch of the Hiram Walker-Gooderham & Worts distillery, Canada's largest. The offense charged: conspiracy-to-smuggle. The significance: none, unless Distiller Hatch & friends set foot in the U. S. Under the present treaty they cannot be extradited...
British shipbuilding, long depressed, is active again, with Clyde, Mersey and Tyne River shipyards expecting an active winter. Clyde shipyards have contracts for 30 vessels, including the Empress of Britain, a 40,000-ton liner to be built for Canadian Pacific. Seven whaling ships, one of 20,000 tons, are building for Norwegian whalers, which are rapidly driving British whalers from the Antarctic...