Word: australian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Committee of Imperial Defense. In London it was universally predicted that a man of conspicuous energy and brains would be chosen. Among the capital's more blatant newsorgans each has had its favorite candidate, the most arresting being the Daily Mail's choice of an Australian, famed Stanley Melbourne Bruce, kinetic, Conservative, air-minded and alert onetime Premier of the Commonwealth, today its High Commissioner in London and last week League of Nations Council President...
...issue of TIME a great record by a great cow, Carnation Ormsby Butter King of 38,606.6 lb. milk and 1,420 lb. butter fat. But-The American Shorthorn Breeders Association, Chicago, Ill. claim for a Milking Shorthorn world's record for butter fat from the Australian Milking Shorthorn Melba 15th of Darhalara. Record 32,5221b. milk, 1,614 lb. butter fat. How about it? WEXTWORTH P. BLODGETT...
...Australian Melba, a Shorthorn, made her record in 1924. Carnation Co., owners of Holstem "Daisy," contend that Melba's record is "unofficial."-ED. Sirs...
...battalions poured into the $300,000,000 forts and for the first time they were fully manned. At some points French and German troops were only a pistol shot apart. The price of a Bank of France share fell from 8,700 to 8,200 francs. On orders from Australian League Council President Stanley Melbourne Bruce, the League of Nations' French Secretary General, M. Joseph A. Avenol, telephoned Berlin, inviting Realmleader Hitler to send a German representative to Geneva for the crucial session of the Council...
Products of Dominions & Colonies praised by the King-Emperor included Jamaican eggplant, Irish bacon, Rhodesian tobacco, Kenya coffee, Australian butter and sealskin slippers from New Zealand, of which His Majesty said, accepting a pair, "I think they will be very warm, comfortable and useful. All my brothers have gloves of sealskin...