Word: dominione
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...Dominion burned with rumors?that the Canadian Wheat Pool had withdrawn support; that the Pool was liquidating; that the Government was about to take over the Winnipeg Exchange. All this having been denied, the market steadied. But loud were the cries from the Prairie Provinces, demanding a world-wide investigation and if not that then a crackling short-selling probe...
...over 7,000 miles in a plane branded FAITH IN AUSTRALIA, he found himself still Premier with his Cabinet intact. His United Australia Party, with the help of the Country Party, retains a shrunken but safe majority in both Houses. Enticing schemes of government inflation advocated by both the Dominion's former Laborite Premier J. H. Scullin and the irrepressible J. S. Lang of New South Wales seemed safely shelved. Langites took comfort in the fact that though defeated, their leader polled three times as many votes as he did at the time of his great defeat...
...governor of the new Central Bank of Canada, Premier Bennett last week appointed one of the youngest bankers in the Dominion, Graham Ford Towers, 37, assistant to the general manager of the Royal Bank of Canada...
...Parliamentary Committee on Mass Buying settled down in Ottawa to investigate the business of the oldest company in North America. Untainted by scandal, the probe was part of Parliament's program for determining the extent and causes of retail price spreads throughout the Dominion. Hudson's Bay Co. was only one of several on the examination table, but because it today controls many of the largest department stores in Canada, it. was easily the most important. At that, the probe did not reveal much about the company which Canadians did not already know. Confining itself chiefly...
...Dominion over this empire of fur, stores, fish and land rests upon a Governor, a Deputy Governor and a Committee of five in London, where the company has its home office. A Canadian committee was established in 1931 under George William Allan of Winnipeg, president of Great West Life Assurance Co. Capitalized at ?4,492,224, Hudson's Bay Co.'s stock is closely held in England and Scotland, the members of Mr. Allan's Canadian committee being practically the only outside shareholders...