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...with costly pictures, and the furniture, imported from Paris and London, was rich, costly and tasteful." The dining room sideboard offered a hospitality as fine as could be found in Virginia, for Blennerhassett Island, discovered by Surveyor George Washington in 1770, lay within the broad boundaries of the Old Dominion...
...Flying Corps during the War cost him a kidney and his remaining kidney has now abruptly convinced him that it is Death to go on as Premier. Mr. Hepburn was said to be in acute pain last week, unable to sleep nights. His whirlwind swing around the entire Dominion during the General Election (TIME, Oct. 21) which made him for the first time a continent-wide figure, also overstrained his kidney. And Mitch believed last week that he faces angina pectoris. After the first shock of amazement, Ontario did not quite believe that its Premier will in fact resign after...
Liberal on the Loose. Since Canada's Liberals under onetime (1921-30) Premier William Lyon Mackenzie King stand at bottom for the very same Dominion fundamentals as do the Conservatives, they have been more than afraid that an anti-Bennett landslide would not be sufficiently pro-King. In a hysterical hashing up of blatant issues which have no real existence, Mr. King has charged that a vote for Bennett was a vote to conscript Canadians to fight the battles of the League of Nations and the Mother Country, while Mr. Bennett in alluding to Japanese cut-price dumping...
Unsolved Problem. Where Canadians stand in the Empire and their attitude toward King George & Queen Mary as symbolized in the Dominion by Lord & Lady Tweedsmuir may be shrewdly guessed from a major pronouncement during the campaign by Premier Bennett. Though pro-English, a personal friend of the King, and with the warmest feelings for the Mother Country and her aristocracy, Mr. Bennett on the stump felt obliged to say to Canadians: "The Motherland is still vigorous and powerful, but it is no longer the directive machine of our national life. . . . Relationship between Canada and Great Britain still constitutes an unsolved...
...returns came in Reform Conservative Stevens was seen to have split and disorganized his party's vote, turning the expected defeat of Premier Bennett & friends into a massacre which left the Conservatives this week with the smallest representation they have had in the history of the Dominion...