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...life has outsmarted city slickers, William Maxwell Aitken "The Beaver" skyrocketed from selling sewing machines, cement and insurance, in which he had little faith (even today self-reliant Beaverbrook carries no life or personal property insurance), until at 31 he dominated a Canadian cement company and liquidated his dominion holdings for $5,000,000 in order to go to the mother country and have...
Prime Minister Smuts, his Government riding the crest of popular indignation, recalled that The Netherlands once gave sanctuary to beaten President Kruger of the Transvaal Republic, advised Queen Wilhelmina last week that if Her Majesty or any members of the Dutch Royal Family should come to South Africa the Dominion would "esteem this the greatest honor and privilege in return for the kindness extended to President Kruger...
...soldier that he not only won the D. S. O. in Africa in 1901 but begged off from becoming Governor General of Canada in 1914 to join the British Army in France. Last week Canadian Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King revealed that when George VI toured the Dominion last year, King & King talked over who would make a suitable successor for Canada's then Governor General, Baron Tweedsmuir, and agreed on "Algie...
Nondescript Utterance. In the Dominion last week a teapot tempest blew up from Ontario as the Attorney General of this Province, politically inexperienced Gordon Daniel Conant, 65, who has been in public life less than three years, again cackled on his favorite theme of British-U. S.-solidarity-to-save-the-world...
...everybody had expected, Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King's Liberal Party won last week's Dominion election hands down. But nobody had expected such a rout as Mackenzie King's enemies suffered. Conservative Leader Robert J. Manion lost his seat, was expected soon to lose his leadership. In Ontario, where blustery Premier Mitchell Hepburn had precipitated the election by knifing his leader in the back (TIME, Feb. 5), the Liberals won 55 seats against 25 for the Conservatives, and Mitch was so discredited that his retirement seemed also in order. Quebec returned Minister of Justice Ernest...