Word: australian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...should decide to borrow $240,000.000 and spend this sum to make jobs for the jobless, Washington would be doing proportionately the very thing that Melbourne did last week. Significantly it was not an Australian radical who proposed to borrow $2 per capita of Australia's population to make jobs. Instead the plan was unfolded at Melbourne to a Commonwealth Conference of State Premiers by Australia's new Roman Catholic and comparatively conservative Federal Premier, Joseph Aloysius Lyons, father of nine, famed "Man from Tasmania...
Niggardly was the promotion bestowed by George V last week on Australia's Sir Isaac Isaacs "first native-born Governor General of a Dominion." Only the most strenuous Australian insistence moved His Majesty in the first place to appoint as representative of the Crown in Australia "a man whom the King has never seen" (TIME. Dec. 15, 1930). Last week Sir Isaac Isaacs, Knight Commander of the Order of St. Michael & St. George, was promoted not into the peerage but merely to Knight Grand Cross in the order of which he was already a Knight Commander...
Turfman Willis Sharpe Kilmer, owner of world's largest money-winner Sun Beau ($356,044), hired the handlers of the late famed Australian gelding Phar Lap- Trainer Treve ("Tommy") Woodcock, Veterinary Walter Nielsen and Jockey Willie Elliot will be given a free hand with eight or ten Kilmer horses. Unlike U. S. trainers who give their horses stiff, frequent tests for speed, Australia's Trainer Woodcock believes in long loping canters to build stamina, stretch muscles. Rich, hearty Turfman Kilmer was not rich until after he had built up his father's proprietary medicine business (Swamp-root...
...Commonwealth Government of Australian Premier Joseph Aloysius Lyons, weary of paying New South Wales's repudiated debts (TIME, April 6, 1930, et seq.) continued its efforts to impound New South Wales funds. Mr. Lyons issued a proclamation attaching betting tax receipts at race courses, entertainment taxes at theatres, and the receipts of state-owned railways in New South Wales. State Premier Lang swiftly countered by ordering that all railway receipts must not be handled by banks, but sent direct to Sydney under armed guard. During the night his agents changed all the locks on all the doors...
...been proven that the greatest horse in Australian turf history had died of poison soon after his arrival in the U. S., dark suspicions might have hung for years between U. S. and Australian sportsmen. Last week University of California pathologists finished their examination of the vitals of the late great Phar Lap ("Wink of the Sky"). They had, they reported, found traces of poison, probably some of the insecticide found on grass which the horse was known to have eaten (TIME, April 18). But they had found only two milligrams of arsenic, an amount so small that it should...