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...Observers found Canadians less deeply engrossed in the King's 25th milestone than in the question of whether they might be obliged to go to war again. Student pacifists, leagues against war were as profuse in Canada as in the U. S. Few weeks ago a seasoned old Quebec M. P. named Henri Bourassa pushed a measure through Commons sustaining the Kellogg Anti-War pact. Leading the anti-war campaign was Canada's largest newspaper, the rich, radical Toronto Star...
Nevertheless, if there was dirt to dig from Hydro's past, "Mitch" Hepburn could find it. And he did, chiefly in connection with long-term contracts which Hydro made with four big private power companies in the neighboring Province of Quebec. Apparently convinced that the amazing growth in power sales promoted by Hydro's low rates in the booming 1920-5 would continue indefinitely, Hydro's former Conservative management signed up for huge blocks of power on a rising scale of delivery for years to come. After Depression struck Ontario, Hydro, with its own plant capacity...
...meantime, however, the private companies sold millions in bonds on the basis of the Hydro contracts, regarded by investors as almost a direct obligation of the Province. The money was sunk in tremendous hydro-electric developments up & down the rivers of Quebec. Last week, after weeks of preliminary rumblings, Premier Hepburn uprose in the Ontario Parliament in Toronto and begged leave to introduce a bill repudiating the contracts one & all as "illegal, void and unenforceable." While there appeared to be some question whether Hydro had not exceeded its authority, the Premier took no chance with the courts: his bill included...
Toronto suspected last week that Premier Hepburn's Hydro bill might be a colossal bluff. Having put the fear of God and the Premier into the hearts of the private power companies in Quebec. Hydro might yet negotiate new contracts at reduced rates. With that to his credit, the Premier would quietly pull the teeth from his toothy measure...
Born. To Dr. James Alexander ("Bud") Stillman Jr.. interne at Manhattan's Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, son of Banker James Alexander Stillman and his divorced wife, Mrs. Fowler McCormick; and Lena Wilson Stillman, Quebec farmer's daughter: a son, their second child...