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...Premiers to agree to a more rational economic setup for the Dominion, to reconstruct and centralize tax powers. Because his free-spending administration did not want to give up a smidgen of tax power, Premier Patullo attacked the plan. With the aid of Ontario's windy Mitch Hepburn and Alberta's William ("Bible Bill") Aberhart, he sank it. What the Premier did not realize was that he had also sunk himself politically, by delayed action...
...Canadian Broadcasting Co. announced that the Premier was going to New York to broadcast on "Canada's war effort and America's lack of preparation." Not quite so undiplomatic, Mitch's speech was still quite a surprise to many a U.S. listener unaccustomed to the usual Hepburn fireworks...
...Also on Hepburn's whirlwind schedule were a victory luncheon, a slapstick initiation to Manhattan's Circus Saints and Sinners.* Mitch breezed through both of these, then headed back home to Canada...
Waiting for scrappy Premier Hepburn in his own country was a fight that promised to be more serious than heated telegrams or radio polemics. This week the Dominion Government will grapple with the question of taking over part of the provinces' revenue sources for war needs. Though it would be like losing teeth, observers thought that for politico-patriotic reasons Mitch would have to give up some of Ontario's cherished pin money, possibly sign away the Province's share of the joint dominion-provincial income...
...luncheon club that exists for the purpose of giving slapstick initiations once a month to current celebrities and notorieties. At Hepburn's initiation he shook hands with former Governor Harold Hoffman of New Jersey, who wore a mask of Franklin Roosevelt...