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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Washington Senator Thomas James Walsh of Montana, prime foe of the "power trust," declared that the merger was a long step toward unified control of the power possibilities of the nation to which the people are "not only indifferent but apathetic." He added: "It is an ominous tale as well to the 40,000,000 people marketing their products through the ports of the Great Lakes and who look for speedy development of the St. Lawrence route...
...Well known to many a fly-fishing U. S. banker and moose-shooting U. S. broker, is shockheaded, barrel-chested David Courtois, Canadian guide. For years Guide Courtois was guardian of the Triton Club, exclusive Quebec fish and game preserve, one share of stock in which (necessary for membership) is worth $300. When not guiding U. S. and Canadian sportsmen, shock-headed Dave Courtois raises children, traps beaver. In August 1928, he loaded two canoes with flour, bacon and steel traps and traveled 450 miles up the Peribonka River from his frontier home in the village of Roberval with...
...should make haste!" cried Finance Minister Ernst Trygger of Sweden. "If we do not soon lower the tariff walls that are stifling inter-European trade it will be too late. As our Swedish proverb well says, 'While the grass is growing the cow dies...
...only flaw in a perfect gastronomic symphony. The Chateau Haut-Brion of 1919 is definitely to light for the true connoisseurs of such heroic, full-bodied, red grands vins, and a surprising number of bottles of this year have not kept well...
...Soviet Dictator Josef Stalin had placed in charge of Russia's schools and universities bold, dashing, ruthless General Andrei Bubnov (pronounced Boobnoff). Dictator Stalin himself is not exactly educated, speaks no language except Russian, has to look up places like "Portugal" in a dog-eared atlas. He knows well enough that General Bubnov was expelled from the Moscow School of Agriculture 26 years ago as a "dangerous radical" and has had little or no formal education since. More important in the Dictator's eyes is the fact that Bubnov fought valiantly as a commander of guerrilla bands during...