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...good woman of plain tastes; she has an Eastern empire and a fat Prince Consort; she is the Queen Victoria of today; she was last week in Paris for the first time in 19 years-Her Majesty Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands, Princess of Orange-Nassau, Duchess of Mecklenburg, Hon. LL.D...
...Zealand's spokesman was of course her potent Hon. George William Forbes, Premier, Finance Minister, Minster of External Affairs, Minister of Customs, Minister of Stamp Duties and Minister in charge of Public Trust, Legislative, State Advances, Land and Income Tax. Scientific and Industrial Research and High Commissioner's Departments. As one competent to speak with authority about almost anything, Mr. Forbes postulated the impossibility of reaching an agreement with Canada for reciprocal tariff favors. This being so, the only thing for New Zealand to do-in Premier Forbes's opinion-was to discipline Sister Canada...
...Canberra or in Ottawa all that the responsible minister has to do is to state that on item of revenue, tax or tariff is changed and it is changed. New revenue rates are automatically effective unless the budget is rejected by Parliament-which almost never happens. Therefore when Hon. Mr. Bennett rose to speak in Ottawa last week he held in his hand the fiscal fate of Canada. Bang-he upped letter postage between Canadian cities from 2? to 3?! Bang-up went the Canadian basic income tax from 8% to 10%! Bang-the sales tax quadrupled from...
...Reprisals?" On the tariff side of Hon. Mr. Bennett's budget speech-and to hear U. S. squawks last week one might have thought there was no other side-the Canadian Premier made courteous pretense that he was not offering "reprisals" to the U. S. Hawley-Smoot Tariff upping (TIME, June 2, 1930). Mr. Bennett said that Canada's depressed "infant industries" and her unemployed workers were uppermost in his mind. By protecting industries he would make jobs. Indeed, two days after his speech Premier Bennett proudly explained just exactly why he raised the tariff on wire netting...
...Hon. H. O. Edwardes, youngest son of Lord Kensington, who won $72,900, first prize in the London Stock Exchange Sweepstakes...