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...bulk of his campaigning was sheer Canadian hayseed vituperation. Across from his farmhouse "Mitch" Hepburn had established a 15-acre car park and on big nights as many as 20,000 farmer constituents arrived to roar "Good boy, Mitch!" as he berated not only provincial Conservatives but the Dominion Government of rich and pious Conservative Premier Richard Bedford Bennett...
...same breath doughty "Mitch" promised drastic economy and costly relief. While raising widows' pensions and payments to the unemployed, he would "cut expenses in half." Coming out against the St. Lawrence seaway development he threatened to break Ontario's agreement with the Dominion to purchase St. Lawrence electric power developed on the Canadian site. "I promise a new deal," he cried, "and clean government!" On polling day Canadians cocked one eye upon Ontario, cocked the other upon Saskatchewan. Too grimly wrathful to throw eggs and tomatoes at their Conservative Premier J. T. M. Anderson, the smoldering sons...
...little company startled the world by declaring a 50% dividend. The next year it paid 25%. Then it split its shares three for one and paid 25% on each of the new shares. By 1869 Hudson's Bay Co. felt secure enough to turn over to the Dominion of Canada the title to most of its original grant for ?300,000, keeping only 7,000,000 acres in Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba and land around its trading posts. From that time until just before the World War, little was done to develop the company...
...concealed rage of King George (TIME, Dec. 15, 1930), Australia was the first Dominion to demand and get a native governor general hand-picked by the Dominion. The Irish Free State followed when the arrant Republican Donal Buckley was given the job in 1932. Canada may be the next. Last week the Winnipeg Free Press pointed...
Canada Strongest has nothing whatever to do with a British Dominion or ginger ale. A canada is a Spanish dingle. Canada Strongest is a narrow valley named for a Bolivian soccer team, about 15 mi. northeast of Fort Ballivian in the Gran Chaco. There last week nearly 100,000 men of the armies of Bolivia and Paraguay were concentrated for what each hoped would be the deciding battle of their...