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...Dominion." Some time in his teens, Liberty Hyde Bailey made a plan for his life: he would spend 25 years learning, 25 years teaching, and 25 years doing "what I like best." Accordingly, one day in 1913, he simply failed to show up at the dean's office. He went to his Hor-torium (he coined the word) instead. Ever since that day, he has been doing "what I like best"-puttering in his greenhouse ("It is an oasis in one's life. . . . One has dominion"), cultivating his palms (he has the best collection in the world...
This week some 6,000,000 Canadians (almost half the Dominion's 12,582,000 population) will listen to broadcasts of the Stanley Cup- playoffs, the World Series of professional ice hockey...
From Finance Minister Douglas Abbott, Parliament got a preliminary tally on Canada's foreign business in 1947, found no comfort in the figures. The Dominion had spent $1,155,000,000 more in the U.S. than the U.S. had spent in Canada. Counting other deals (e.g., a $74 million subscription to the International Monetary Fund), the Dominion's deficit in U.S. currency was $1,395,000,000. Because only $652 million came in from Britain and other hard-up customers, Canada had dipped into reserves for $743 million...
...Canadian government boldly set the Dominion's economy on a new course with sweeping pronouncements that placed restrictions on all but one of these imports from...
Died. Sir Isaac Isaacs, 92, first native-born Governor General of a British Dominion (Australia, 1931-36); in Melbourne. Isaacs found himself a storm center in Empire affairs when he was nominated; "a man the King has never seen," he was approved only at the insistence of Prime Minister James Henry Scullin and the Australian people...