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...vast domain is the Province of Ontario, stretching from the Ottawa River to the Manitoba prairies; from Niagara Falls to Hudson Bay. Within its 400,000 sq. mi. are one-third of Canada's population; one-half of Canada's industry. Almost every known mineral except coal lies beneath Ontario's geologically ancient hills. And that fact has given rise to the greatest public power enterprise in the capitalist world-the Ontario Hydro-Electric Power Commission. Last week "Hydro" found itself in the thick of a furious politico-economic fight which stirred the whole Dominion...
...agency to June 30, 1937. 2) Knocked out was the penalty of two years in jail, for violating any rules the President might make about his $4,000,000,000. 3) Knocked out was the President's power to acquire personal property by exercising the right of eminent domain...
...inflation, remains attached to stability of the national currency and maintenance of the gold value of the franc. But, at the same time, the Government is resolutely determined not to deny itself the normal and perfectly legitimate means of action which may be placed at its disposal in the domain of credit...
...Acquisition by purchase or by power of eminent domain of any real property to effectuate the new project...
...uphold the abrogation of the gold clauses if they can do so without sacrificing what they regard as vital principles. Several ingenious compromises are, however, open to the Court. Example: By upholding Mr. Cummings' contention that private persons who wrote gold clauses were squatting on the public domain, the Court could void such claims in private bonds but make the Government pay what is nominated in its own bonds, since obviously the Government cannot squat on its own domain...