Word: australia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Davis Cup. The finals for the preliminary Davis Cup play will find Australia facing France. The Australians removed their semi-final obstacle by taking four out of five matches from Japan at the South Side Tennis Club, Chicago. Zenzo Shimizu was the only oriental to win when he defeated John B. Hawkes in a desperate match in the first day's play...
...East. On Great Britain's ability to hold Singapore and to dominate the coasts of South China ultimately depends the fate of Hongkong and the Treaty Ports, French Indo-China, the Dutch East Indies, the Philippine Islands and the British possessions in the Pacific, including Australia and New Zealand...
...official opening of the New York Cotton Exchange's new 24-story building was attended by prominent bankers and cotton men from all parts of the American cotton belt, as well as from England and Australia...
Edward of Wales: "A British advertising man, visiting the U. S., announced that I intend to visit ' Canada, Australia and other of the dominions ' prior to the British Empire Exposition, which opens at Wembley, near London, next Spring...
...organization of the Negroes was to be attained by the formation of the International Negro Improvement Association. In August. 1920, 3,000 delegates, from Abyssinia to Australia, met in Manhattan. A Declaration of Negro Rights and a Constitution of Negro Liberty were drawn up. A flag colored black, red and green was adopted; a World Leader and Supreme Deputy Potentate were elected; plans were made to build a " Black House " in Washington for Marcus Garvey, newly elected Provisional President of Africa. The following Universal Ethiopian Anthem was adopted...