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...Pius X. In Milwaukee his playful choir boys stuffed the trombones and tubas, for an accompanied number, full of newspapers. The resulting tone, says Father Finn, "sounded like everybody was playing a fine-toothed comb. I had to ring the curtain down so we could fix things." In Regina, Saskatchewan, Finn found himself without a baton. A gentleman, "a true gentleman," says Finn, "took the rung of his chair and whittled it down so that it would fit between my third and fourth fingers, which is where I hold a baton. Halfway through the concert that baton flew...
...Saskatchewan's C.C.F. Cabinet, duly sworn in and settled down to work, offered Canadians a preview of what they could expect in the way of a national socialist government. Premier Tommy Douglas' twelve-man Cabinet was long on party loyalty and enthusiasm, naturally short on administrative experience. The Cabinet's strongest point: it was thoroughly typical of the rural, grain-growing people who had put the C.C.F. in provincial power. Among the members were one clergyman (Douglas), five farmers, three schoolteachers, one expert on farm cooperatives, a railway man, a lawyer. Three of Douglas' principal advisers...
...Agriculture Minister George Williams, 49, was a Canadian Army major until he was invalided home in May. He has been a schoolteacher, a farmer, his party's provincial leader. In 1931 he represented Saskatchewan's farmers at an international wheat conference in Rome. At Moscow's invitation he studied Soviet Union methods and later wrote a book about them (The Land of the Soviets...
...distant Saskatchewan rolls...
...harvest has begun in Texas and Oklahoma and is moving for ward like an army with its flanks spread wide. By late June it will reach Kansas, then thresh slowly up from the heartland of the U.S., until by September it spends itself on the windy prairies of Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta...