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...first Beaufort to reach the designated bearing was piloted by a flight sergeant from flattened Coventry and navigated by a sergeant from peaceful Saskatchewan. The pair saw the streamlined Panzer ship, closely screened by one destroyer to the fore and two on each flank. The destroyers on the flanks hung close abeam-so close that putting a torpedo home would not be easy...
...maiden speech: "I feel very much qualified to speak upon this question of relief because for three years I have lived upon relief. I had to feed a family of five-listen carefully-upon $11.25 a month." The family she referred to is made up of the Saskatchewan farmer she married and their three children. English by birth, Mrs. Nielsen was trained as an art teacher, taught in Saskatchewan schools before she was married...
Never in world history has one man so dominated, so terrorized, so galvanized into action, or inaction, the people of the entire world. The lives and minds of men in faraway Patagonia, in Bengal, in Senegal and in Saskatchewan have been agitated by the moves of Adolf Hitler. His name hung like a pall over the U. S. political and economic scene of the year just closed and yet you say it was Churchill's year...
...committee room of the huge, grey stone House of Commons in Ottawa last week the nine Provincial Premiers of Canada met with Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King and his Cabinet to confer on the Rowell-Sirois Report. The Premiers of Canada's five poor provinces (Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island) were generally in favor of it. Premier Joseph Adelard Godbout of French-speaking Quebec was not ready to commit himself, but would talk. Three Premiers were flatly opposed: Ontario's florid Mitchell Hepburn, Alberta's vast shiny William ("Bible Bill") Aberhart, British...
...Peter Verigin rejoined his followers in Canada. Together Verigin and the Dukhobors conspired to preserve their ignorance, secrecy, gregariousness, in time achieved a mild communal prosperity in British Columbia and Saskatchewan. When Verigin was killed in an explosion in 1924, surly Dukhobors whispered that "the Government" had plotted his death. They set fire or blew up scores of schools, and 600 Dukhobors were imprisoned for refusing to send their children to school. More clothes were shed. The Dominion thought of putting the unassimilable Russians on a reservation, like an Indian tribe. The leadership succeeded upon Peter's son, Peter...