Word: australia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...breaking through party lines to vote for a great American, Herbert Hoover. "Herbert Hoover has grown up in the clean country, an orphan wrestling with poverty for a living and an education. After gaining these with his great natural powers he was called to carry on from China to Australia immense constructive works at the head of armies of co-workers with whom he has never had a strike or a misunderstanding. ..." Mrs. Clendenin then mentioned Nominee Hoover's feeding of Belgians and Germans, his flood-control work, Europe's understanding of him, and closed: "For these...
...Calvin Coolidge was an inconspicuous Assemblyman in Massachusetts. Alfred E. Smith was the same thing in New York. Herbert Clark Hoover had branched out independently in engineering and in 1907-08 visited England, Egypt, Burma, Australia, New Zealand, Malay, Ceylon...
...Where does he [Nominee Hoover] compare, if you will-and I dare challenge itin his Americanism with Alfred E. Smith? . . . When Mr. Hoover cast his first American vote, after his many years in the Orient, in Australia and other places, Alfred E. Smith was Governor of New York. From 1902 to 1912, Mr. Hoover's official address was London, England. I don't propose to criticize him for that, nor do I propose to forget Mr. Hoover's great humanitarian work during the War. But at the same time Governor Smith was engaged in humanitarian work...
...catch is the phrase "allegiance to the Crown." It recently enabled Governor Sir William Robert Campion of Western Australia to refuse (as His Majesty's representative) to sign a certain money bill passed by the Legislature of Western Australia. Sir William has admitted that he was "guided" by the intimations of the British Government, although technically he was acting only for the Crown. Thus "allegiance to the Crown" is a suave phrase under which the Dominions are left apparently free but actually subject to slight curbs from the Prime Minister and Parliament of Great Britain...
...this year. Motor cars and trucks exported numbered 260,072 (44,837 more than in the first half of 1927); were worth $184,687,815. Tires: 1,344,000 (225,072 fewer than last year). Parts: $55,318,127 worth ($1,152,428 gain). Best car customer was Australia; best truck customer, Argentina...