Word: canadians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...provincial bootstraps of Ontario to the Premiership of all Canada. As a build-up for this, the Premier had deliberately provoked a provincial election which he need never have to fight and was hell-bent to win it Oct. 6. With chances heavily favoring "Mitch," last week Canadian wiseacres agreed that a victory for Liberal Premier Hepburn must severely shake the position and prestige of Canada's Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King. Although both are still nominally Liberals, Hepburn and King have broken violently, thus threatening to split Canada's majority party wide open at the next...
...found in the robust British Dominions. He was born 41 years ago on a St. Thomas farm of sturdy Scotch-Irish stock. After public schooling, which finished with the St. Thomas Collegiate Institute, the farmer boy, aged only 17, proudly became a cashier in a small branch of the Canadian Bank of Commerce...
...capitalist Canadian circles this was "the Crime of the Century." The next time Premier Hepburn wanted to sell a few Ontario bonds the big Canadian brokerage houses ganged up and boycotted him. Yet, after a few months of fury, the three of the Quebec power companies whose contracts had been torn up quietly made new contracts with Ontario at lower rates. All this left "Mitch" more popular than ever with most Ontario voters and users of electricity. Last week some of these wealthy Canadian interests which had flayed Premier Hepburn for tearing up the power contracts were now arrayed behind...
Sounding Board for Premier Hepburn is a new and potent force in Canadian journalism, launched with the money of bleak, eccentric William Henry Wright, onetime butcher, soldier and prospector, today credited with having Canada's largest annual income ($6,000,000). This comes from the famed Wright-Hargreaves Mine, largely developed by Old Prospector Wright, who lives 90 miles north of Toronto in the small town of Barrie...
Shipping, Meanwhile the trade routes of the world were being altered. Canadian Pacific, Dollar and Nippon Yusen Kaisha Lines dropped Shanghai from their schedules. Passenger traffic to China had ceased almost entirely, although traffic to Japan suffered little. Marine underwriters discontinued (or raised to prohibitive heights) war risk insurance on all cargoes to be unloaded at Chinese ports. This promptly affected exports, for banks generally refused to advance credit on uninsured shipments. New York seamen contributed to the trouble by agitating for war risk pay when serving on ships in "endangered waters." The Dollar Line had one consolation: fat fees...