Word: australian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sandwiched in between social functions, given mostly by Congressmen angling for the U. S. Country Women's votes, were scores of addresses at Constitution Hall. An Australian delegate told how farm women there had installed a wireless set in every outlying homestead so that expectant mothers could summon medical aid. A British delegate made an impassioned plea for the destruction of stone walls and high hedges so that driving townspeople could enjoy country yards and gardens. A resolution favoring more emphasis on international news in rural newspapers passed unanimously. An lowan chorus chanted folk songs. An Amerindian woman presented...
...Francisco, Australian Harry Bridges, leader of that city's bloody 1934 general strike (TIME, July 23, 1934 et ante), quietly filed his third set of naturalization papers since his arrival in the U. S. in 1920 by jumping ship. Both the others had been allowed to lapse...
Famed among mining engineers for two sober works, Concentrating Ores by Flo tation and Economics of Mining, Dean Hoover, like his brother, worked his way through Stanford, managed Burmese and Australian mines, followed his brother to London to make a tidy fortune as a stock promoter. In Palo Alto he lives with his wife in a comfortable house four blocks from Brother Herbert's. Engineer Hoo ver's three firmest tenets are that the world stands to suffer from a metal short age, that wars are inevitable, that such terms as "culinary engineer," "cosmetic engineer," "sales engineer...
...Guinea is not a part of the world where white men can readily afford to execute one another. In all that wet island jungle, whose northeastern, German segment was put under Australian mandate at the end of the War, there are some 4,000 whites scattered among 700,000 blacks and numberless pigs, rats, butterflies and birds of paradise. Until last week the ruling Britons had hanged some 45 black men, not one white. But the elderly German gold prospector, Ludwig Schmidt, had gone...
That would have been the end of Old Ludwig except that the Australian Labor Party is theoretically opposed to capital punishment and is actually and vehemently an enemy of black men because they are a source of cheap labor. Labor members of the Australian House of Representatives ignited a blaze of protest against the execution of Old Ludwig. To Labor the ''Sane Government" coalition of Prime Minister Joseph Aloysius Lyons replied that capital punishment is Australia's law, sharply adding that Labor seemed to want one law for blacks, another for whites. Finally the Government Ministers pointed...