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...California. Like California, this westernmost province welcomes visitors with full purses, turns a cold shoulder on the many jobless who immigrate in hope of work and of enjoying a comparatively mild climate. Unlike the U. S., Canada has no unified federal system of unemployment relief. Although from the Dominion capital at Ottawa come periodic donations, relief administration is left largely to the provinces and localities...
...received only $2,850,000. When he tried to put through a law muzzling the hostile press and making all banks Social Credit institutions, Governor General Lord Tweedsmuir vetoed the project. Final setback came last March. According to the British North America Act (Canada's Constitution), the Dominion holds control over currency, banking, interprovincial commerce. Canada's Supreme Court pondered Alberta's Social Credit laws, decided unanimously that they ran afoul the Dominion's monetary system...
...scare of its life. Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King's Liberal Government moved their big guns to Regina, Saskatoon, many a smaller community. A Cabinet official chose a favorable moment in tiny Esterhazy to announce that during the present session of Parliament a $50,000,000 Dominion housing scheme would be approved...
...elected a 100% Fascist Council, their Government had made a democratic gesture. The Republic issued a three-lire and a five-lire Abraham Lincoln postage stamp. Below democratic "Honest Abe's" profile was reproduced a part of a letter he sent to San Marino in 1861: "Although your dominion is small your state is nevertheless one of the most honored in all history." President Lincoln thereafter became Honorary Citizen No. 1 of San Marino...
...Other work has been done in Belgium and in the U. S. by Dr. Clinton Joseph Davisson of Bell Telephone Laboratories, who won a Nobel Prize in physics last year for experimentally demonstrating the wave nature of electrons. Some years ago, Astronomer Francois Charles Henroteau of Ottawa's Dominion Observatory suggested that an electronic telescope (converting feeble starlight into electric current by means of photoelectric cells) could be built which would equal a 2,000-inch mirror telescope - ten times bigger than the 200-inch giant now being erected on a California mountain...