Word: canadians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...features make it impossible for the C.I.O. to climb the Canadian grades in the same gear which it used in Detroit. The hill across the border is less steep, for General Motors Ltd. largely gave way before the strike commenced. The forty-hour week, extra pay for overtime, grievance committees, and seniority rights are conceded by the company, which opposes most stiffly the question of union recognition. Negotiations on this issue await only the withdrawal from the employee delegation of an agent of the Detroit United Autoniobile Workers. It is the extraordinarily aggressive tactics of the C.I.O. agitators swarming...
Riding the crest of his legislative popularity last week, Mr. Lapointe proposed to go the League Against War & Fascism one better by founding a League of All Canadian Citizens to Fight Communism, Fascism and All Other Subversive Movements. As the parliamentary overture to this project, Minister of Justice Lapointe keynoted in the House of Commons: "I am a strong believer in the British way of administering justice. I believe in the majesty and equality of the law and I believe Canadian citizens of all classes who believe in peace and order should join hands with a view to the preservation...
...Dean of the College, Oberlin chose Professor Carl Wittke, genial head of the history department at Ohio State, whose crack History of Canada is standard even in Canadian universities. The acting dean of men, Alumnus Donald Melbourne Love, then became Secretary of the College, succeeding retiring George M. Jones. From Lawrence College (Appleton, Wis. ), which recently lost its President Henry Merritt Wriston to Brown, Oberlin took Dean of Women Marguerite Woodworth, to replace ex-Dean of Women Mildred Helen McAfee who left Oberlin last year to become President of Wellesley (TIME, May 25). One outcome of this intercollegiate shuffling...
...horsepower compared with 750,000 of Russia's vaunted Dnieper. In the new dry and barren Columbia basin, Grand Coulee will irrigate and electrify 30,000 forty-acre farms capable of supporting 1,500,000 people. The lake behind it will back up 151 miles, almost to the Canadian border...
...same reason: a paper boom. After dragging bottom at $41 per ton, newsprint prices were increased slightly for 1937 contracts but the first real boost did not come until a fortnight ago when International announced a new price of $50 for 1938. A score of U. S. and Canadian newsprint makers promptly followed suit, while London's Lord Rothermere, a papermaking publisher, dispatched this cryptic cable to the Toronto Financial Post...