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Year ago the Nationalists met in Calcutta?their "Congress" being in fact a party caucus?and resolved this ultimatum: If the British Parliament does not grant India dominion status with a legal Indian Parliament before Dec. 31, 1929, then the Indian National Congress will proclaim civil resistance to the British raj (rule...
...Canada there are only ten banks, each with many branches. For a long period the quickest growing of these was the Royal Bank, which by 1927 held 26.09% of Canada's banking resources. Last week the Royal Bank became the Dominion's first billion-dollar bank, when it reported that total assets for the year ended Nov. 30 were $1,001,442,741-a gain of about $92,000,000 during the year...
...sugar production inside the U. S. tariff wall. The Spanish War added Porto Rico, the Philippines and Guam as imperial outposts, gave the U. S. a protectorate over Cuba. From the 1902 revolution in Panama the U. S. got land for the canal, laid the foundation for U. S. dominion over the Caribbean. Theodore Roosevelt, if not an imperialist, was a master empire-builder; he enlarged the Monroe Doctrine, took over the collection of the Dominican customs. The sphere of U. S. influence in the Caribbean widened; other powers were shut out as the U. S. undertook...
...president and a director at 33) became president of Imperial Oil, Ltd., then and now Standard's Canadian subsidiary. With the outbreak of the War, the tremendously increased demand for petrol enabled Mr. Teagle to develop Imperial Oil from a small company to the second largest corporation in the Dominion. Then, in 1917, when the U. S. entered the War, Mr. Teagle was made president of Standard of New Jersey (A. C. Bedford was moved up to the board chairmanship) to repeat his successes in Wartime expansion. In 1927 he supervised the reorganization of Standard of New Jersey from...
Canada has a few fess than 10,000 doctors. Last week 60 of them, professors in one or another of the nine leading medical schools of the Dominion, met at Ottawa and formally organized a Royal College of Physicians & Surgeons of Canada. The other seven dozen medical professors in the schools are to become Charter Fellows ipso facto, according to the enabling law passed by the Canadian Parliament last year...