Word: winnipeg
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Together with the Pit's slump, wheat tumbled in Winnipeg. Canadian prices have long been pegged at around 50?, a price which because of the depreciation in the Canadian dollar gives Canadian wheat an advantage in the world markets. Last week when the slump in Chicago narrowed the margin of advantage the Winnipeg peg was pulled. In a short time December wheat was selling at 47⅝? in Canadian currency, giving it a 2⅜? advantage over U. S. wheat. How this advantage works is seen in the September export figures. During the month Canada exported...
...Manitoba. Last month huge shortages were found in the trust and endowment funds of the University of Manitoba (Winnipeg) and the Anglican diocese of Rupert's Land (TIME, Sept. 5). Suspicion pointed at John Alexander Machray, 67, bursar of the University, chancellor of the diocese. He was arrested. Manitobans could scarcely believe it possible. He was a famed lawyer, graduate of St. John's School and College (Winnipeg), also of Cambridge and the University of Manitoba; son-in-law of a rich retired brewer; onetime president of the Manitoba Red Cross and of the League of Nations Society...
Western Canada was shocked when Lawyer Machray, enfeebled by long illness, arose in Winnipeg's Provincial Police Court, leaning heavily on his cane, to be charged with theft. His peculations from University funds were now estimated at $901,175. In addition he was charged with stealing $60,000 from Heber Archibald, his former law partner. (The firm had gone bankrupt.) Begging a summary trial, Lawyer Machray pleaded guilty. Magistrate R. M. Noble, recalling huskily that for 25 years he had been a friend of the accused, passed sentence: seven years in the penitentiary...
...Publishing Co. Ltd. wandered through the wheat deserts of western Canada building prestige and circulation for Western Home Monthly. Twelve months ago the firm decided it was time to enter the more fertile publishing fields of the populous East. With wheat at 50? a bu., Western Home Monthly (headquarters: Winnipeg) found its readers broke. The magazine "went national," guaranteed an A. B. C. circulation of 180,000 by October 1932, a boost of some 60,000 over the distribution it then had. With a whoop of delight, last week the publishers announced that the goal had been reached. To celebrate...
...Stovel. In 1867 he began a weekly newspaper called The Confederate, the name springing not from the recently concluded U. S. Civil War but from Canada's provincial confederation which occurred that year. Eighteen years later Publisher Stovel moved with his four sons, all printers, to Winnipeg. Fourteen years later Western Home Monthly came to life. Father Stovel and sons Harry, John and Augustus died, but the business is still run by Chester David...