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Perfunctory was the beating of Conservatives in Quebec in August 1931 by ever-victorious Liberal Provincial Premier Louis Taschereau, grand old French-Canadian boss. In June 1932 the Conservatives did not feel too badly when they failed to oust the Progressive Liberal Government of farmer-radical Manitoba, but since then the Conservative Generalissimo at Ottawa has known nothing but rout after sickening rout. His Liberal rival, onetime Dominion Premier William Lyon...
...frozen St. Lawrence River. Avid for news, the New York World sent Flyers Floyd Bennett, who was half-sick, and Bernt Balchen flying to Greenly Island. They landed at Lake Ste. Agnes near Murray Bay, where Bennett could go no farther. A plane returned him to a hospital in Quebec where he developed a fulminating case of pneumonia. Pneumonia serum available at the Rockefeller Institute in Manhattan might save Floyd Bennett's life. Charles Augustus Lindbergh sped to the Rockefeller Institute, snatched a supply of pneumonia serum, sped to his plane, flew to Quebec. But Floyd Bennett died...
Belcher Sirs: TIME publishes the most trustworthy of movie guides, but why don't you do about Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's belching lion? W. D. HUMPHREY Sherbrooke, Quebec...
...concessions'' Premier was hard put to it to make the issue, for practically all power in his Province is distributed by a Government enterprise-Ontario's famed HydroElectric Power Commission. However, just before Depression, Hydro signed contracts with several big private companies across the border in Quebec, agreeing to purchase additional power on a vast and rising scale for years to come. Thus Hydro was soon faced with the prospect of paying millions for power it could not possibly...
...legislation, which includes a ban on damage suits against the Government, was passed last spring but is not yet effective. Most Canadian quidnuncs suspected the Liberal Premier of trying to bluff the Quebec power companies into a speedy revision of the onerous terms but the mere hint of repudiation made conservatives throughout the British Empire raise their hands in holy horror (TIME, April 15). For these were no ordinary course-of-business contracts: solely on the basis of Hydro's promise to buy, the private companies sold bonds to the public to finance enormous expansions up & down the swift...