Word: australian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Very Reverend Dean's little speech changed the whole atmosphere of Australia. Roaring with rage, the Commonwealth's high-blood-pressured politicians forgot their local strife last week in attacking Dean Johnson's "outburst of ignorance." Cried Premier Forgan Smith of the Australian State of Queensland which adjoins the vast and almost vacant Northern Territory: "As a means of smashing the British Commonwealth of Nations no more effective scheme could be devised...
Strictly practical Australian politicians like Commonwealth Premier Joseph Lyons, "The Man from Tasmania," realized that they must make some effective answer to Dean Johnson's charge that His Majesty's subjects "cannot colonize" the Northern Territory and should therefore let Japanese at least try. Mr. Lyons revealed a secret. His Government, he declared, has about completed negotiations with two groups of British financiers ready to invest between them ?200,000,000 ($972,000,000 at par) in developing roughly half a million square miles of northern Australia...
...like the famed East India Co. which wrung so much wealth from Indian natives between the reigns of Charles II and William IV. To make the proposition more attractive Premier Lyons is willing to let the half-million square miles on hundred-year leases exempting the chartered companies from Australian duties, land taxes and income tax for that period...
...with a sense of responsibility. How such an undiplomatic note crept by the family censor I cannot comprehend, but it is not for me to offer excuses. To Secretary of Treasury Woodin, Colonel Louis McHenry Howe and TIME'S artist, who were mentioned in the same passage with "Australian Bushman" and "Bloodhound," humblest apologies. The distinguished Treasury head, Colonel Howe and the muse who instills magnetism in TIME'S front covers are performing their respective tasks to my unlimited satisfaction and I am confident Bushman and Bloodhound are doing the best they know, each according to his light...
...England's Davis Cup tennis team (Perry, Austin, Lee, Hughes): the European zone finals, by healing the Australian team 3-to-2 (Crawford, McGrath, Quist, Turnbull) at Wimbledon. England. This week in Paris the English team meets the U. S. team in the interzone finals. ¶Ben Jeby: a 15-round fight with Young Terry of Trenton, N. J., in which Jeby was defending his world's middleweight championship; in Newark. ¶Inlander, owned by socialite Mrs. Dodge Sloane of Manhattan: the Arlington Classic, in which he muddily spattered up from fourth place in the stretch, to finish...