Word: canadians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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March 5 first British sovereign to order an automobile not made in the United Kingdom, a Canadian McLaughlin-Buick. March 18 first levee of Edward VIIIth reign, held at Buckingham Palace. April 2 spent two hours instead of the customary two days receiving the Privileged Bodies of Great Britain, the Clergy, university officials etc. April 9 revived the disused custom of personally distributing "Maundy Money" to the poor in Westminster Abbey. April 20 cabled congratulations to Adolf Hitler on the Realmleader's birthday. April jo on the death of King Fuad of Egypt received his successor King Farouk...
Steelman Millsop to the presidency of his Weirton Steel Co., making him, at 37, the youngest chief executive in the business. Steelman Millsop quit an open-hearth job to spend three years as a combat pilot with the Canadian and U. S. air forces. After the War, he barnstormed for a while as a stunt flyer, later returned to steel in the blast-furnace department of Youngstown Sheet & Tube. After a few months he moved over to drive rivets for Standard Tank Car Co., shortly shot up to the production manager's desk...
...Steve Harvey of Dallas who enlisted in the Canadian forces at 13, transferred to a U. S. division later on, collected $782 as the youngest soldier to fight for the Allies...
...Dominion Trade & Industry Commission Act the Court gave piecemeal approval. Unanimously it held invalid the Commission's right to exempt from prosecution combines in restraint of trade, the issuance of a Canadian trademark to signify a product's compliance with Commission standards. The section of the Commission's functions which the Court held valid was again concerned with the prevention of unfair trade practices...
...Canadian Province of Alberta which elected W. C. Aberhart as Premier on a Social Credit platform recently (1 made the platform effective and began paying a $25-a-month dividend to every citizen, 2 defaulted payment on two bond issues, 3 refused to accept financial aid from the Dominion Treasury, 4 impeached its Premier, 5 prevailed upon the founder of Social Credit to assist in making the plan effective...