Word: australia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Australia's MacDonald. If Englishmen were not so ignorant of Australia, they might point out that James Ramsay MacDonald's desertion of the Labor Party which had made him Prime Minister and his formation of a National Government was exactly paralleled in Australia by Premier Lyons. Neither the Scot nor the Tasmanian was ever a true toiler in the Marxian sense. Both got their start as schoolteachers. And of Ramsay MacDonald it might have been said, as one of Joe Lyons' admiring biographers has frankly said of him, that "when it came to politics he stood for the Labor cause...
...Australia today the bankers can be said to have won. They feel they have won. Certainly they are not objects of mass scorn or ridicule. But Australia's climate is too salubrious, things grow too easily, mighty resources are too splendidly undeveloped, and the masses have too long enjoyed previous Government bounty for the New Deal which is old Down Under to have taken a fatal beating. From a critical Marxist viewpoint Australia is pinker than the U. S. today and Premier Lyons is but little whiter in his politics than President Roosevelt. Both leaders limp heavily, the Australian because...
...each other's pants off, thus leaving each still with one pair of pants, seemed the likely issue of their conjunction this week in Washington. Last week they had already started being "good neighbors." On the Rex the Australian Premier regretted and proposed to correct the oversight which makes Australia the only Dominion of the Big Four not represented in Washington by its own diplomatic mission. For his part President Roosevelt took note of the oversight which has made Australia hitherto a spot of exile for members of the U. S. foreign service. In Washington it was briskly announced that...
...Enid Lyons, who in Scotland had been jeered by a handful of irrepressibles as "Papists!" knelt before the Supreme Pontiff. His Holiness imparted the Apostolic Benediction and observed, "We still preserve a most pleasant recollection of the great triumph of the Church represented in the Eucharistic Congress at Sydney, Australia" (TIME, Sept...
...query on the Rex "But isn't Australia terribly raw?" plump, vivacious Mrs. Lyons answered, "Yes, the salads!", her favorite repartee whenever Australia's rawness comes up. Another favorite remark of hers: "You must have happiness in married life. The mother should be like a beloved Queen." Burly, curly Joe Lyons when he saw Queen Mary several weeks ago for the first time in his life exclaimed involuntarily: "Magnificent! Magnificent...