Word: australia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shouldered George Fielding Eliot got his baptism of fire as a second lieutenant of Australian infantry. He began to write, however, as a major of the U. S. military intelligence reserve. Behind this shift of allegiance lay a long story: born in Brooklyn 44 years ago, he migrated to Australia with his parents at eight, returned to the U. S. to school, was in college at Melbourne when the War broke out. He fought at the Dardanelles from May through August 1915, was transferred to the Western front, where he went through the battles of the Somme, Passchendaele, Arras, Amiens...
...news last week that a freckled, redheaded, 23-year-old son of a California laundryman had abdicated the throne of amateur tennis, had turned in his four-titled crown for $75,000 in cash. For the past two months it has been common knowledge that Donald Budge, champion of Australia, France, England and the U. S., would sign with Jack Harris (front man for Wilson Sporting Goods Co.) for an indoor barnstorming tour this winter. Last week the papers were signed. Starting January 3, Budge will display his talents opposite Ellsworth Vines in 70 U. S. cities, may make...
...George V in 1935 when he offered Australia his third son, the roly-poly Duke of Gloucester, as Governor General, and Australia declined with thanks. A lot of trouble has turned up in the world since then, however, what with the Italians showing their muscle in the Mediterranean, the Germans down the Danube and the Japanese all over the Far East. It behooves the Empire to stand fast, and a great cementing gesture was made last week when George VI was graciously pleased to appoint H. R. H. the Duke of Kent to go out to Canberra in November...
According to London's Sunday Express, swank couturiers who cater to the best-dressing Duchess of Kent promptly made plans to open branches in Australia. Bustling George Garcia, the Australian Chairman of Aspro Ltd. which sells Europeans half a billion headache tablets yearly, crowed: "I am elated. Australia has always been keen on the Royal Family. We want a governor general from outside the Dominion who can make unprejudiced decisions. The Duchess will appeal to Australians because she is beautiful and chic and a mother...
...Central Australia, a more radio-wise part of the British Empire with a rural isolation problem, flying physicians go out on radio calls. Ranchers, farmers, miners have pedal radio transmitters, take exhausting rides on stationary bicycles to generate power for calling the doctor by radio...