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...stalked with long strides out of his office, snarled "I'm through here!" at reporters, jackknifed his long body into his small motor car, pressed the starter and rattled off to his farm some miles from Sydney. Significantly "he had been dismissed not by Sir Isaac Isaacs, the Australian-born Governor General of the Commonwealth, but by British-born Sir Philip Game, the belligerently British Governor of the State.* Laborite supporters of Mr. Lang predicted that in the New South Wales election which must now be held, the "British meddling" of Sir Philip would sweep Laborite Lang back into power...
Some pastors thought Engineer Wyer should not have been invited to speak; many felt that he had been somewhat harsh. The pastors were particularly eager to hear sturdy, bespectacled Dr. Frederick William Norwood, eloquent Australian-born minister of London's City Temple.* One of his chief reasons for visiting the U. S. was to attend the Pentecostal celebration. He spoke with great verve. "Dare we say," he inquired, "that we are civilized when at this moment the representatives of the great governments are sitting with drawn lips, like men playing cards, trying to see how much power they...
...Alaska, the Australian-born soldier of fortune Captain George Hubert Wilkins, leading the expedition backed by citizens of Detroit, was in something of a hole but was summoning his final resources for a flight to see if land exists between Point Barrow and the Pole. In Spitsbergen, the young Virginian, Lieut.-Commander Richard E. Byrd U. S. N., backed by Vincent Astor, Edsel Ford, John D. Rockefeller Jr. and others, rested after an historic 1,600-mile round-trip flight to the Pole, and laid out his next course-to wing westward from an advance base on north Greenland...
...operator back in Fairbanks had heard the preliminary signals of Waskey's small portable radio, was ready to receive and relay to the outer world news of the advance party of the aerial polar expedition financed by the Detroit Chamber of Commerce and commanded by Captain George H. Wilkins, Australian-born soldier of fortune...
Sunset at Troon, Scotland, on June 15 found A. G. Havers the winner by one stroke of the British open golf championship. That stroke separated him from Walter Hagen, titleholder. Third place went to MacDonald Smith of California; fourth, to Joe Kirkwood, Australian-born American...