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...DOMINION After Grey North
...19th Century brought other European influences: detailed German realism, light-filled French impressionism and decorative French postimpressionism. By 1867, when Canada became the first self-governing country of the British Empire, the Dominion was not only experimenting with all the myriad painting styles of the western world, but had also begun a hardy local regionalism of its own. Among its outstanding modern exponents was the "Group of Seven," formed just after World War I. They painted "the very look and feel of Canada," and resembled the famed "Ashcan School" which appeared in the U.S. in 1908 (Luks, Bellows, Sloan...
Just as joyful to eye-rubbing Tories was a dawning hope. CCF Candidate Albert Earl Godfrey, who ran a dismal third, had stood on the campaign's fringes shouting hallelujahs for the promised land of socialism. If Grey North was any indication of Dominion sentiment, the lusty CCF had lost a lot of its abracadoomph...
...immovable U.S. facilities-hospitals, barracks, warehouses, etc.-would be bought by the Canadian Government for prices to be fixed by qualified appraisers. Any properties which the U.S. does not specify for sale will be given free either to the Dominion Government or to the province in which they are located...
...would haul away any movable items-jeeps, trucks, road-building machinery, etc.-she wants. Canada's Government will have first crack at whatever is left, at appraisers' fixed prices. The rest will be turned over to the Dominion's War Assets Corp., which will retail them to civilians, give the proceeds (after costs...