Word: australia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Commerce at the University of Melbourne, contributed some illuminating remarks on the subject of "The State and the Entrepreneur." Professor Copland spoke from wide experience, for he was one of a group of economists who were instrumental in bringing about a "State-engineered" recovery from the depression in Australia, and well knows the relations between the government and private enterprise. In spite of the fact that the state is often a "bad loser and a poor employer" when it undertakes the functions of the entrepreneur in industrial projects, he advocates an increase in the amount of control exercised...
Last week Dr. George Mackaness, professor at the University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, offered U. S. readers a ponderous, highly-documented life of the vice-admiral that ran to 717 pages, seemed likely to fix Bligh's place in history for a long time to come. A partisan of his hero, Dr. Mackaness has had the advantage of new discoveries of Bligh's personal writing in drawing his portrait, studiously refutes writers who have charged Bligh with inhumanity and tyranny, but not those who have called him hot-tempered, tactless, shortsighted, rough...
...eleven years Dr. Heiser was Director of Public Health in the Philippines. Resigning to become Director for the East of the Rockefeller Foundation, he traveled through Europe and Asia, lived in Ethiopia, Japan, Siam, Australia, the South Sea Islands. Russia. His professional duties ranged from establishing a leper colony in the Philippines to conducting a colleague on a round-the-world tour in the interest of the fight against tuberculosis, from persuading Haile Selassie to cooperate in the struggle against yellow fever to leading a campaign against polished rice in the South Seas. Vigorous, informative, complacent, he discourses with equal...
Expected to join the royal party were Lord and Lady Louis Mountbatten and the King's youngest and favorite brother, the Duke of Kent, with his elegant, dashing Greek wife Marina. In a unique tribute to this pair last week newsorgans of Sydney, Australia urged that if the King can not come to the 1938 celebration of the 150th anniversary of the founding of that Commonwealth, he should send the Duke and Duchess of Kent and they should bring with them Princess Elizabeth, eldest daughter of the Duke and Duchess of York, who may some day be England...
...England: the Davis Cup, for the fourth successive year, when, with the score two matches all, dashing Fred Perry beat Australia's Jack Crawford, 6-2, 6-3, 6-3; at Wimbledon...