Word: australia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Everyone agreed that Jack Crawford could be counted on to win his two singles matches for Australia, that Lott & Stoefen would win the doubles for the U. S. That left the issue of the Davis Cup interzone finals squarely up to Australia's Vivian McGrath (pronounced McGraw), the extraordinary 18-year-old who hits backhand shots with both hands and has, at one time or other, beaten most of the world's best players. If McGrath could win one of his two singles, against Sidney Wood or Frank Shields, Australia was almost certain of playing England...
...Calcutta leaders of the international Theosophist Society, headless since the death of Mrs. Annie Besant last year (TIME, Oct. 2), elected as their new president Dr. George Sidney Arundale, 55, rugged onetime bishop of the Liberal Catholic Church in Australia. Long a student of Theosophy which at some points duplicates the occult tenets of Liberal Catholicism, Dr. Arundale has been a pedagog in India, a member of the Worshipful Company of Pewterers, a Freeman of the City of London. He once tutored sallow Jeddu Krishnamurti whom Mrs. Besant hailed as a messiah. Year ago Dr. Arundale brought his pretty Hindu...
...concealed rage of King George (TIME, Dec. 15, 1930), Australia was the first Dominion to demand and get a native governor general hand-picked by the Dominion. The Irish Free State followed when the arrant Republican Donal Buckley was given the job in 1932. Canada may be the next. Last week the Winnipeg Free Press pointed...
William Y. Elliott, professor of Government, has been granted leave of absence for the first half of next year, according to an announcement made yesterday at University Hall. He will spend the time in visiting Canada, Newfoundland, the West Indies, and if possible, Australia and New Zealand, to gather material for a book on the British Commonwealth of Nations, which he is about to write. All his courses will be presented in the second half of the year. Carl J. Friedrich, associate professor of Government, will act as the head of the Government department during Elliott's absence...
...Chicago she won first place in a popularity survey among housewives. Last week Orphan Annie was being read by anxious millions, because of Daddy Warbucks. Few months ago Daddy began to worry about his business-never identified but so prodigious as to require frequent telephone calls to Singapore, Shanghai, Australia. Soon he was faced with the choice of liquidating his affairs and retiring on a pittance, or selling stock to the public on the chance of a comeback. For days he debated with himself before choosing honest poverty. But first he set aside a sum-"millions"'-for taxes. This...