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Crisp and formal in blue serge and high wing collar, Premier John Brownlee of the Province of Alberta sat in court at Edmonton last week with his sweetly sedate wife to hear himself accused of "enticement and seduction...
Months ago faithful Minister of Public Works McPherson charged that the suit was a political frame-up to ruin the Premier and besmirch Alberta's United Farmers Party in the person of its chief. But last week the Press had eyes chiefly for the plaintiff, beauteous, blonde Miss Vivian MacMillan who is exactly the type Hollywood likes to cast for stardom in courtroom dramas of clean women and dirty politics...
...good men and true make a jury in Alberta. Before them Miss MacMillan appeared as her own star witness in cool summer hat and frock. She faced the impassive Premier with a story of how at a picnic in tiny Edson when she was 18 he told her she was a very handsome woman, mentioned the opportunities for employment in Edmonton and said that Mrs. Brownlee would keep an eye on her if she chose to come to Alberta's metropolis. She came, got a secretarial job in the Attorney-General's office, and Mrs. Brownlee was always...
...name only and that this drove him nearly frantic. "He told me he needed me as a pal," testified Miss MacMillan. "I told him that if I did such a thing it would be a sin. He told me that he could not go on as Premier of Alberta unless I would give in to him. I seemed to be under a spell. He seemed to be playing with me like a cat plays with a mouse. I couldn't stop going out with him. His influence was too strong...
...shares three for one and paid 25% on each of the new shares. By 1869 Hudson's Bay Co. felt secure enough to turn over to the Dominion of Canada the title to most of its original grant for ?300,000, keeping only 7,000,000 acres in Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba and land around its trading posts. From that time until just before the World War, little was done to develop the company...