Word: australia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...London their most hectic wangles, the question whether Germany is guilty of violating the Locarno Pact was for the first time formally voted on by the League Council. The Councilman from Ecuador was absent, the Councilman from Chile abstained. ''Guilty!" said the eleven votes of Argentina, Australia, Britain, Denmark, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Rumania, Russia, Spain and Turkey. No one voted "Not Guilty...
Crowds had thronged to hear him in Europe, Australia, South Africa, New Zealand. Another record crowd pushed its way into Carnegie Hall last week where the boy appeared unaffected by the siege of adulation. For the Manhattan concert the Menuhin family made a special concession. Yehudi's sister Hephzibah was permitted to play with her celebrated brother...
Proceedings were opened by the statesman whom alphabetical rotation had made President of the League Council at this session, the Rt. Hon. Stanley Melbourne Bruce, High Commissioner in London of the Commonwealth of Australia and onetime Premier. In a few words Mr. Bruce voiced thanks to the King for having loaned a portion of his residence to the League. It was not felt necessary, added Mr. Bruce, to put up "No Smoking" signs since members of the Council would realize that if they smoked this would pollute the King's hangings & rugs...
Divorced. Alan John Villiers, 32, famed literary deep-water sailor (Grain Race, The Last of the Wind Ships, By Way of Cape Horn); by Daphne Kaye Harris Villiers; in Melbourne, Australia. Grounds: desertion. Rarely ashore in the past 17 years, Sailor Villiers two months ago piloted his full-rigger Joseph Conrad into Melbourne after a 16-month journey from England, prepared to set sail for an unnamed Pacific island in search of gold...
...railroad station perched atop the Fremont Pass at an altitude of 11,000 ft. Gold diggers had discovered the deposits, thought them graphite. Even after they proved to be molybdenum no one was particularly excited because the ore was low-grade (8 lb. to the ton) and Scandinavia and Australia, with small reserves higher in metal content, could more than supply what market there...