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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week in a fiscal morass was Austria (see p. 23). Other governments painfully pinched for money by Depression were those of Newfoundland and Brazil (see below). But many a nation is not pinched. Last week Canada easily converted more than $600,- 000,000 worth of a series of Dominion bonds (totalling $1,084,800,000) into other series at impressive savings in the rates of interest. Fortnight ago Italy offered an internal loan of 4,000,000,000 lire ($210,000,000). Italian investors offered a total of 7,004,439,500 lire, a 75% oversubscription...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Nations Must Live | 6/8/1931 | See Source »

...farmers. To carry an appeal to the world when it has already fallen on deaf ears in the U. S. seemed to many delegates twice hypocritical. That Canada is not the "trusty vassal" of the U. S. appeared when Canada's George Howard Ferguson, High Commissioner of the Dominion in London and Chairman of the Wheat Conference last week, said cuttingly of the U. S. Chief Delegate's speech: "It was prepared before Mr. McKelvie came to London and perhaps without any definite relation to this Conference...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Wheat Meet | 6/1/1931 | See Source »

Hurt by the dividend cut are 65,000 C. P. R. owners?20,000 in the United Kingdom, 27,000 in Canada, 13,000 in the U. S. And affected psychologically by the cut is each & every one of Canada's 9,000,000 citizens, for between the Dominion and the C. P. R. is a great bond. The C. P. R. has grown because Canada has grown; Canada could not have grown without...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: C. P. R. | 5/18/1931 | See Source »

...glamorous project for a "new dominion," Chief Koinange said dryly: "Closer union of the children will do no good unless the father admits them to his councils...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: New Dominion? | 5/11/1931 | See Source »

...black chiefs represented 10,000,000 of His Majesty's subjects. The white baron is Chairman of the joint Parliamentary Commission for East Africa. One fine day the Commission will decide whether Kenya Colony is to be federated with Uganda and Tanganyika, thus creating a new "Dominion of East Africa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: New Dominion? | 5/11/1931 | See Source »

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