Word: dominions
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...number of ways. He got the city into so much financial hot water that a provincial commission had to be set up to manage the city's affairs. He got more hearty laughs out of Queen Elizabeth than any other Canadian official when Their Majesties visited the Dominion in 1939. And this year he issued a proclamation (later suppressed by the censor) advising his French-Canadian constituents not to register for the Canadian draft...
When that happened, the Dominion Government descended on clowning Camillien in dead of night and bundled him off to a detention camp (detention for Canadians, internment for aliens). His fellow detainees promptly elected him chairman of the camp entertainment committee. Legally last week Houde was still Mayor of Montreal, and right up to election day his salary ($10,000 a year) was paid to Mme. Houde while he earned in addition 20? daily for work in the camp. Even under this cloud, last week Camillien Houde saw his political henchman Leon Trepanier win 15,591 votes, just 974 votes short...
...Only newspapers with comprehensive foreign coverage of their own are the New York Times and Chicago News. "Between 1914 and 1924, the Times all but achieved Dominion status"; now it has a " mild but diminishing British flavor."Cost of the News's foreign service...
These bold words came last week from no embittered follower of Neville Chamberlain, at outs with Winston Churchill's Government. Published in Canada's No. 1 magazine, Maclean's, they were the work of a Dominion-born newspaperman and politician, Beverley Baxter. A longtime aide of gnomelike little Lord Beaverbrook, 49-year-old Newsman Baxter is a member of Britain's Parliament, an unpaid efficiency expert for British factory workers. His job is to pep up the men's morale...
...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 Petrovich Verigin, a Rasputin-like paranoiac whose mismanagement and personal vices helped ruin the Dukhobor's communal enterprises. The sect disintegrated during the 19305, but in western...