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Appointed. Ottawa's handsome Major William ("Bill") Duncan Herridge, K. C., 42, winner of the D. S. O. Military Cross, and Brigade Majorship in the War, widower of Rose Fleck Herridge, granddaughter of the late John R. Booth who was Canada's richest man (lumber); to be Canadian Minister at Washington...
Administration by entering into a "gentlemen's agreement" that Canada would not clear liquor ships bound for U. S. ports. Last week it was announced in Ottawa that since May the Canadian Treasury has lost $15,000,000 in liquor revenue taxes, directly as agreement." a As one result of this gentleman to "gentlemen's another, President Hoover and Prime Minister Bennett may well mention liquor, must discuss the possibility of a U. S. embargo on Canadian wheat, will probably announce that they are talking about "the St. Lawrence waterway project." Indeed that stale red herring was vigorously...
...giant plan in hand . . . intimated that some credit arrangement might have to be made to enable China to buy Canadian wheat in large quantities. [He has not attempted] to outline the very interesting and stupendous plan which is now being discussed in London, New York, Washington and Ottawa for the rehabilitation of silver and the general reorganization of oriental trade and markets...
Into the beautiful "Christ Child's Crib" in St. Joseph's Church at Ottawa, a little boy who had lit a candle to the memory of a dead relative last week overturned a tray of lighted candles. Although every fire engine in Ottawa came, the $450,000 church burned until only its blackened limestone walls remain...
...idea has spread abroad. Canada has six; Hamilton and London, Ont., Montreal, Toronto, Winnipeg and (new this year) Vancouver. Ottawa has a Canadian Council on Child Welfare, which technically is not a chest...