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...Canada's west coast is the Dominion's biggest year round seaport and third biggest city with a corporate history going back only half a century. To celebrate Vancouver's 50th anniversary this year is the job of its big, shrewd, bumptious Mayor Gerald Gratton ("Gerry") McGeer. An Irish Protestant lawyer and one-time iron molder, Mayor McGeer's pet plan for Vancouver is to push it into bankruptcy to reduce interest charges. Says he: "People think they can climb into Heaven with a Bible in one hand and a foreclosure in the other. .. . The boys...
...depreciated if a week and that, to make up this depreciation, Albertans were paying the Government 52% interest a year on their average weekly balance. Last week the Edmonton Chamber of Commerce called the Aberhart money "a heavy and discriminatory taxation scheme." The Chamber had already appealed to the Dominion Government at Ottawa to force Premier Aberhart to withdraw his prosperity certificates...
...Next greeter was Premier Mackenzie King, roundheaded little sociologist, one-time student at Harvard and resident of Chicago's Hull House, who wore a pale-grey morning coat and grey topper, and looked as if he were on his way to the races at Ascot. Said the Dominion's real No. 1 man: "Today we are indebted to your visit for yet another symbol of international peace, friendship and goodwill. In the three centuries and more of Canadian history, this ancient capital has known but two flags, the French and the British. Today, Mr. President, in your honor...
...only to have tea on the lawn of Buckingham Palace with the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester, following the Canadian pilgrimage to see King Edward dedicate the Vimy Ridge memorial in France (TIME, Aug. 3). Unexpectedly His Majesty arrived and was shouldering his way unannounced through the mass of Dominion veterans when they recognized him with shouts of "Oh boy, the King! Good old Neddy!" slapped their King-Emperor on the back, vigorously wrung his hand...
Most royalist and loyalist of British Dominions statesmen is handsome, dynamic and air-minded Stanley Melbourne Bruce, onetime Premier of Australia and now the High Commissioner in London of the Dominion's Cabinet. At Bristol last week an English audience cheered Mr. Bruce to the echo when he declared that the Dominions ought to pay more than they do now of the terrific bills the Mother Country is running up for armaments. "You can rely," cried Orator Bruce, "that there will be recognition in Australia that they have got to make their contribution...