Word: ammons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dominion's Office in London never published the commission's formal report. But last week in London the commission's chairman, Labor Peer Lord Ammon, put his own recommendations on record. He rejected as "unacceptable" the solution for Newfoundland's problems most often proposed by outsiders: confederation with Canada...
Britain's Plan. Lord Ammon's solution would keep Newfoundland a British dependency. He did not think the island ready for self-government again, proposed instead: 1) Newfoundlanders be allowed to elect three members of the six-man commission now ruling the country; 2) substantial grants by Britain to put the country on its feet; 3) a ten-year plan to build up neglected social services and to develop resources...
Under Lord Ammon's plan, Britain would underwrite Newfoundland's short-term liabilities: lack of education among the people, the island's towering public debt...
Final--Won by Hall (Mass. State); second, Ammon (Amherst); third, D. Case (Williams); fourth, Eusden (Harvard); fifth, Bernabel (Princeton). Time...
Final--Won by Rogers (Columbia); second, Ammon (Amherst); third, Trubee (Princeton); fourth, Glynn (Army). Time...