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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...previous condition (Free Trade) for his standard in judging the present. Sample: Walter Lippmann. A reactionary contemplates some fundamental change in the status quo in order to recover the supposed advantages of institutions that have disappeared. Samples: French monarchists, Southerners who believe in slavery, Dorothy Thompson. . . . EDWARD MCARDLE Toronto, Ont...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 9, 1938 | 5/9/1938 | See Source »

Brantford, Ont...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 11, 1938 | 4/11/1938 | See Source »

Died. Walter Scott, 70, Canadian newspaper publisher and first Premier of Saskatchewan (1905-16); of heart disease; in Guelph, Ont...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 4, 1938 | 4/4/1938 | See Source »

Last week hundreds of Irish Hospital Sweepstakes ticket holders were looking forward to rich rewards from the Grand National. In Midland, Ont.. a pious Protestant churchgoer named Mrs. Charles Fenton tore up a ticket worth $4,950. Her husband had bought it in her name. Mrs. Fenton thought this was plain gambling, and Mr. Fenton, gloomily agreeing, spent some of his own hard-earned money cabling the Irish Sweepstakes to keep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Three Faiths | 4/4/1938 | See Source »

...machines capable of installing telephone poles in five minutes, hole and all. About 50,000 four-wheel drive vehicles are now in service and although there are 20 rival concerns,* F.W.D. made 80% of them. It now sells about 1,000 a year, has a factory in Kitchener, Ont., distributes all over the world. In the fiscal year ended last June it grossed $4,137,937, netted $151,405 or 83? on its 182,240 outstanding shares (after a 10-for-1 split in June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: The Drive | 2/28/1938 | See Source »

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