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...Betty Grable are a tough-to-beat combination, especially when they have a half-dozen good tunes to plug. Of course the pleasant renditions of the leading ladies make them as good as new. Jack Oakie helps the show along with some skillful bits of light comedy and Esther Ralston, who was a star about half the length of time ago that the songs were hits, makes a short but sensational appearance. The plot is much older than the songs, but it is unimportant...
...Army and Navy? Canada went into the war with such a department, nominally still has one. But the job was too big; the organization was overwhelmed. So Canada backtracked, provided Ministers for Air -able Charles Gavan ("Chubby") Powers -Navy (gentle, genial Angus Macdonald) and Army (Defense Minister James Layton Ralston, No. 1 dynamo of Canada's wartime machine). All have Cabinet rank; each has his own organization. Only when matters affecting two or more services come up does Mr. Ralston on occasion function as top Minister. Then the three Ministers and the chiefs of the three service staffs generally...
...Circumstances made it possible for Mackenzie King to go ahead, certain that Canadians' reservations about the snooty U. S. would be put away for the time being. First, by the defeat of France, as Minister of Defense J. L. Ralston remarked, "Canada has suddenly been put very much on her own." Britain could no longer supply Canada with articles which, with France's assistance, had been surplus. Second, the imminent attack on Britain left many loyal Canadians wondering whether Canada might not be independent (or at least without a mother country) much sooner than she wanted...
National Defense Minister Colonel J. (for James) L. (for Lay ton) Ralston reported to the House of Commons in Ottawa on the senior Dominion's progress. Earnest in appearance, soft of voice, brisk of manner, like a hornet for energy (he has worked between 16 and 20 hours a day for the last month), J. L. Ralston is widely considered the ablest man in Canada's wartime Government and the one most likely to succeed Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King. His report glowed...
...Bold Step." Ten years ago, 59-year-old Dr. John Ralston Davidson, former associate professor of medicine at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, set up a small laboratory in his cellar, to continue his experiments on mouse cancer...