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Precisely at 9 p.m., the Dominion-wide network of the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. tied into station CBO, in Ottawa's Chateau Laurier. There, in ail armchair at a desk, sat Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King, facing two microphones. He was stripped for action-coat and vest unbuttoned, tie and detachable collar removed (later he spruced up for photographers). For 24 minutes he read from a 4,000-word manuscript, now & then gesturing with his right fast. At countless radios, the people listened...
About 20 Mounties and constables and about 40 civilians were injured. Scores of other townspeople had superficial aches and bruises. The worst injury done was to Canada's reputation. Brawls like this one were obscuring the Dominion's superb war effort...
Since he became boss of the Eastern Arctic (1931), he has dispensed law, performed marriages and composed the authoritative reports which, to a large extent, guide the Dominion's policy toward its Eskimo population. In the Hudson's Bay Company's sturdy little Nascopie, he has traveled 168,000 miles of icy Arctic waters in the past 14 years, learned to know many of the cheerful, grinning Eskimos by name. The Eskimos call McKeand "The Man With the White Hair." Sometimes they call him Umeealik (boss man). Boss McKeand carefully protects his Eskimos against the white...
Details of the new U.S.-Canadian air agreement were announced this week. Now, instead of one Dominion airline crossing the border, there would be seven. The eight transborder routes operated by Americans were increased...
...born Clarence Decatur Howe, Minister of Reconstruction, reported: the 14,300,000 miles flown in the Dominion last year made Canada the world's second largest operator of domestic airlines. First: the U.S. (103,601,443 miles...