Word: canadians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Mr. Frank Murphy was Governor-General of the Philippine Islands he engaged as confidential secretary one William Teahan, a Canadian citizen. Unless he has been naturalized since his return to America, Mr. Teahan is still a Canadian, and has continued on the payroll of the U. S. Government as secretary to Mr. Murphy, now Governor of Michigan...
Americans with Civil Service rating were refused employment in the Governor-General's office on the plea that there were no vacancies (while the position of private and confidential secretary was held by a Canadian...
Cannot there be found in the entire State of Michigan an American woman or man who could qualify (barring nepotism) for the post now held by Canadian William Teahan...
...United Automobile Workers, and as Ontario's blatant Premier Mitchell F. ("Mitch") Hepburn continued roaring belligerently that he would never let the "paid foreign agitators" of C.I.O. get a foothold in Canada (TIME, April 19), G. M. and U.A.W. officials met in Detroit, agreed to let their Canadian affiliates get together with the Premier and work out a strictly Canadian settlement. That seemed to save face all around, since "Mitch" Hepburn and G. M. of Canada could claim that they were spurning C.I.O. and U.A.W.'s "international" officers, while Oshawa's U.A.W. local would remain just...
...there have been some 20,000 Ontario members of unions affiliated with C.I.O. But shrewd "Mitch" Hepburn had apparently done himself no harm by waiting until Sit-Down alarm had boiled across the border to begin his one-man stand against an alien invasion. As a coming man in Canadian politics, pointed to succeed Mackenzie King as Dominion Prime Minister, his rousing blasts at "John L. Lewis and communism" were nicely calculated not only to make a surefire appeal to Canada's patriotic masses, but also to placate conservative voters hitherto repelled by his loud New-Dealishness. Nor could...