Word: australia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chancellor of the Exchequer in a written answer to a question asked in the House, stated that the Colonies are repaying loans to the Mother Country. Payments on principal have been made by the following dominions: South Africa, ?381,000; Australia, ?526,000; New Zealand, ?141,000; British Guiana...
...Emperor Jones" come to life, with sex and race transformed, Is the purport of a recent news-item from Australia. Elizabeth Mahoney, the widow of a South Sea trader, has returned to civilization after thirty-three industrious years on an island in the Antipodes During those years she has accumulated a fortune in gold, which she herself has mined; she has acquired a fleet of small boats, and incidentally has done the everyday tasks of carpentering, engineering, and the raising of-her own food-supplies. All these are mere incidentals. Her great achievement was in winning sovereignty over...
...that of the Roman mob in the period of Corn laws and competitions in Praetorian generosity. They are given their regular doles of food, and everything is done to make their lives carefree and easy. Now and then the terrible spectre of road-building, railway construction, or shipment to Australia, where good wholesome work is free and plentiful, makes a shadow in their dreams. But so far the bug-a-boo has done nothing more than to cry, "Boo!" and the Englishman of leisure is still able to sleep sweetly on a full stomach and say to himself, "Oh England...
...greatly interested in the theory and history of Socialism, making special visits to Belgium, France, and Germany in order to study the scientific movements in these countries at close range. He wrote a number of articles on economic subjects, and in 1905 a treatise on the labor situation in Australia. When only nineteen, while a student at the University of Petrograd, he was elected vice-president of the Society for the Study of Political Economy...
...voters everywhere to support Democratic candidates. The outcome suggested, that the appeal did not please the average voter, in fact that he ignored or resented it. Other administrations have "gone before the people" to a certain extent, often with the best of intentions. In Great Britain, in Canada, and Australia, such campaigning is necessary, for there the election of a new Parliament is based wholly on the record and policies of the cabinet members who take office as party leaders. It is logical enough that they should defend their positions, for this is the main issue before the British electorate...