Word: dominions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rich, pious and a man of his solemn word is the Rt. Hon. Richard Bedford Bennett. Last July he said unto Canadians that if they would return his Conservative Party victorious to Parliament then verily, verily he would build a great tariff wall around the Dominion and behind it there would be plenty of new jobs for Canada's 117,000 unemployed. As everyone knows, it came to pass that Mr. Bennett is now Prime Minister with a clear majority over the Liberal opposition. One day last week he built his Great Wall. In British nations (each Dominion...
...head the list of imports saddled with higher duties. The steel and iron schedules bristle with slight changes, but of U. S. products only iron pipe is jacked up decisively from $10 to $14 per ton. Because Canada's autompbile industry is as yet too infantile to supply Dominion demands if further protected there is no change in this bracket. Motor cars from the U. S. will continue to enter at 20% (those retailing up to $1,200) and 271% (retailing over...
...went into the paper business in Canada itself by buying a substantial stock interest (not exceeding 20%) in Canada Power & Paper Corp. Immediately it began negotiations for the acquisition of waterpower rights and timber limits for a mill in Newfoundland. Negotiations were carried on by Hearst through a subsidiary, Dominion Newsprint Co., Ltd. In its turn, Canada Power & Paper acquired a stock interest in that company. There was no cash transaction. The Hearst-Canadian Power deal was the second of recent months to shake the battlements of International Paper.- In June, Lord Rothermere merged his Anglo-Canadian Pulp & Paper Mills...
...policy registers a new success," gloomed Il Lavoro Fascisti, organ of potent labor syndicates. "It was necessary for the United States to remove the only man [ex-Presi- dent Hipólito Irigoyen of Argentina] in the South American republics who was unwilling to submit to a policy of dominion by the great stellar republic...
...this Viceregal offer the Mahatma replied last week by demanding, as a preliminary to any concession, that India be granted a National Government, responsible to Indians alone, and enjoying the right to secede at any time from the British Commonwealth. This right, Mr. Gandhi holds, is inherent in "dominion status" and is possessed by all the British dominions-a view with which not a few Canadians and South Africans agree, but flat heresy to Englishmen...