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CANADIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION, TELEVISION: DAYS BEFORE YESTERDAY, THE

1996-0018

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1972-12-14

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

photography, Wilf Doucette; interviewer, Larry Zolf

Interview conducted for the television series THE DAYS BEFORE YESTERDAY : STRUGGLE FOR NATIONHOOD, of Ralph Hyman, a newspaper reporter for the Toronto Globe and Mail. He describes the 1930 election, the crash of 1929, meeting Mitchell Hepburn, and covering Hepburn's 1934 election campaign and other political issues of the time. He also describes the Ontario government's handling of the Dionne quintuplets' affairs and states that the "quints put us on the map". Hyman talks briefly about anti-semitism in the 1930s, including a personal incidence of discrimination. He also talks about working for George McCullagh, publisher of the Globe and Mail and founder of the Canadian Leadership League. <40mn>

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