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...Major William Duncan Herridge, arrived in Washington and the Press began to report resumption of diplomatic negotiations on the St. Lawrence project. This the State Department feebly denied. Later, however, the New York Power Authority chairman informed his Governor that he had heard from Canadian sources that Washington and Ottawa were secretly at work on a treaty...
...Orient. They said goodbyes at Washington, New York, and at the estate of Father-in-Law Morrow at North Haven, Me., where they left Baby Charles Augustus ("Eaglet") Jr. Then they turned their low-wing Lockheed-Sirius, with its gasoline-laden pontoons, north to Canada. The hop to Ottawa was simple, gave Co-Pilot Anne Morrow Lindbergh opportunity to practice radio communication with the Pan-American Airways base near New York. West of Ottawa the pair had their first look at the wilderness over which they must fly on most of their course. Followed by flying newshawks, they spent...
...breathless question was asked and left unanswered last week in sweltering official Ottawa: "Can the Sergeant-at-Arms of the House of Commons arrest a Senator of the Dominion and lock him up in the Tower of Parliament?"* Reason such an arrest seemed likely was that Senator Wilfred Laurier McDougald of Montreal had refused to appear before a Committee of the House and was considered in contempt of Parliament...
...matters caused his appointment to the Canadian National Committee, an advisory body to investigate the benefits and disadvantages that might result to Canada if the Canadian-U. S. St. Lawrence Waterway project were carried out. Known as the best-dressed Senator and one of the best looking men in Ottawa, he has a commanding presence, is a good talker. He talked well last week, showed the committee that he had purchased most of his enormous holdings of Beauharnois stock outright. But he had difficulty in explaining a block of 80,000 shares received, with some cash, in a deal involving...
...Ottawa local newsdealers took an alarmist view, said that the new tariff on U. S. periodicals would force them to raise prices so much as to decrease their sales drastically. They predicted "dire unemployment" in newsdealer ranks, for readable Canadian magazines...