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Including Canada in the western hemisphere arms standardization proposals, Mr. Trunian said that the British Dominion's "cooperation with the United States in matters affecting their their common defense is of particular importance...
...reconversion items up to March 31). In addition, Canada during the war years gave away $3,230,452,079.19 in cash or goods to nine allies (most of it to Great Britain). It all totted up to just under $2,000 for every man, woman & child in the Dominion. Equivalent U.S. costs: $339,000,000,000, or just under $2,400 per capita...
This law outraged Canada's orthodox financiers, and the Liberal Government in Ottawa asked the Supreme Court of Canada whether the legislation was constitutional. Last week, by a 4-to-1 vote, the court ruled that Saskatchewan had trespassed on the Dominion's preserve-under the British North America Act, the right to regulate interest...
Bearer's Progress. Seldom has a man risen so far and so fast in Dominion political life. Descendant of New England Tories of Revolutionary War days-he sometimes refers to his "New England conscience"-Doug Abbott had nothing to do with politics until he was 41. His career was law, his sports were bridge, golf, curling and fishing. Born in 1899 (at Lennoxville, Quebec), he served overseas in World War I, returned to finish his law studies. By 1940 he had a pretty wife, three children, a medium-sized income in a medium-sized Montreal law firm...
...cold rain, waving soggy placards: "Candy is dandy, but eight cents ain't handy," and "We'll eat worms before we eat eight-cent chocolate bars." In Toronto and Montreal, demonstrations got tangled with the Communist-inclined National Federation of Labor Youth, which tried to take over. Dominion retailers were trapped between high wholesale prices and higher juvenile tempers...