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Twenty miles from the Ohio shore, in Lake Erie, is Pelee Island, Ontario. It is having a real-estate boom. One J. A. Baxter and the Manhattan financial firm of Mills Mover & Co. announced plans for "the greatest pleasure resort within easy reach of the U. S." Work on the Pelee Island hotel of 350 rooms is to be started at once. Golf links, tennis courts, bathing beaches, 4.4% beer and wine will be there. Still another diversion was proposed. Said Mr. Baxter: "This Monte Carlo stuff is the bunk. Gambling is against the laws of Ontario. There will...
...June 9). He could not, he said, permit the country to entertain the illusion that his administration was responsible for the present financial disorders. He reminded the Senators that loans had been contracted mainly for reconstruction work in the devastated regions, but that at no time did the Government resort to illegal financing. He reminded the Premier that the Expert' (Dawes) Plan had been made and accepted before he came into power and inferred that his [Herriot's] Government had been barren, contrary to the Premier's election promises, of constructive financial reforms. The ex-Premier concluded...
...Premier, through his Finance Minister, once more compromised. It was stated that the capital levy would be voluntary, but it was firmly hinted that, if the system were not successful, resort would be had to an obligatory levy. The "sop" to the extremes of the Government and Opposition parties seemed lost. Matters had gone so far that it was entirely possible that no fiscal project, no matter how reasonable, would be accepted by the Senate...
...Morain, Prefect of Police, was on the spot. Amid jeers, hoots and hisses; he lectured the students: "You are free to manifest your opinions, but you must not resort to acts of violence...
...people attend. He does not speak on religion. He touches only humorously on politics. He is not required to speak on real estate. However, he occasionally utters something like this : "We are nearer to two thirds of the people of the United States than any other winter resort of the Western Coast is to one third. We are closest to the richest two thirds. The reason that brought us here will bring increasing thousands...