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...wealthy, forthright statesman who startled the Imperial Conference in London last week by crying "Canada First!", adding that he expected his fellow Prime Ministers to cry their countries likewise, was of course His Majesty's Prime Minister in the Dominion of Canada, the Rt. Hon. Richard Bedford Bennett, bachelor...
Victor Steuart Kaleoaloha Houston, Hawaii's (voteless) delegate to Congress, said: "American Samoa cannot be made into a State. It cannot be made into an incorporated Territory, as it is impractical to apply many Federal laws there. A special form of government, such as Do Dominion status, would be necessary...
Rich, pious and a man of his solemn word is the Rt. Hon. Richard Bedford Bennett. Last July he said unto Canadians that if they would return his Conservative Party victorious to Parliament then verily, verily he would build a great tariff wall around the Dominion and behind it there would be plenty of new jobs for Canada's 117,000 unemployed. As everyone knows, it came to pass that Mr. Bennett is now Prime Minister with a clear majority over the Liberal opposition. One day last week he built his Great Wall. In British nations (each Dominion...
...head the list of imports saddled with higher duties. The steel and iron schedules bristle with slight changes, but of U. S. products only iron pipe is jacked up decisively from $10 to $14 per ton. Because Canada's autompbile industry is as yet too infantile to supply Dominion demands if further protected there is no change in this bracket. Motor cars from the U. S. will continue to enter at 20% (those retailing up to $1,200) and 271% (retailing over...
...went into the paper business in Canada itself by buying a substantial stock interest (not exceeding 20%) in Canada Power & Paper Corp. Immediately it began negotiations for the acquisition of waterpower rights and timber limits for a mill in Newfoundland. Negotiations were carried on by Hearst through a subsidiary, Dominion Newsprint Co., Ltd. In its turn, Canada Power & Paper acquired a stock interest in that company. There was no cash transaction. The Hearst-Canadian Power deal was the second of recent months to shake the battlements of International Paper.- In June, Lord Rothermere merged his Anglo-Canadian Pulp & Paper Mills...