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Over the years, Saskatchewan wheat farmers had spent many a sleepless night worrying how to meet the mortgage. On an average, they had to net $12 an acre before they showed a profit. In 1927, they averaged $18.91, but in 1932 the yield skidded to $4.76, which spelled wholesale defaults and forced sales...
This law outraged Canada's orthodox financiers, and the Liberal Government in Ottawa asked the Supreme Court of Canada whether the legislation was constitutional. Last week, by a 4-to-1 vote, the court ruled that Saskatchewan had trespassed on the Dominion's preserve-under the British North America Act, the right to regulate interest...
Even with wheat prices still booming in a hungry world, the mortgage issue is far from academic for hundreds of submarginal wheat farmers along Saskatchewan's western border. To keep these uneconomic producers from going to the wall, the province will probably pass a cumbersome moratorium bill. On the broad issue of the province's powers, Premier Douglas promised to appeal the Ottawa court's decision to the Privy Council in London...
...best known as the nation's ablest, and most respected, champion of socialized medicine (TIME, Jan. 30, 1939). But social medicine is only one of his interests. Since coming to Hopkins, he has carried a heavy teaching schedule, directed Hopkins' Welch Memorial Library, reorganized health services in Saskatchewan and India, translated old writings - both medical and non-medical - and written half a dozen books...
...something it was not. Moscow's Izvestia said the agreement had "clearly aggressive characteristics." A Moscow radio commentator cried: "There are [U.S.] troops everywhere [in the Arctic], and in such places as ... Churchill they experiment with jet-propelled planes." Such sniping was not confined to Russia. Saskatchewan's socialist Agriculture Minister Isidore Nollet, U.S.-born and a U.S. veteran of World War I, complained that there were U.S. troops stationed at North Battleford, Sask., and that they should be told to go home...