Word: australian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...knew that any wireless message sent from Fiji would be intercepted by the German warships, so I gave instructions for the following words to be wirelessed in English to H. M. S. Australia, flagship of the Australian fleet: THANKS FOR MESSAGE. SHALL EXPECT YOU EARLY TOMORROW...
Important as the success of the loan was for the whole Australian Commonwealth, New South Welshmen were more excited over the unsuccessful attempt of N. S. W. Premier J. T. Lang last week to appoint 60 of his Laborite friends to the State Legislative Council (Upper House...
...make His Majesty do it-such was the Empire scandal in London last week. As for Sir Isaac Isaacs, he, apart from being a brilliant lawyer and an able politician, is ideally fitted to receive viceregal honors by the dignity of his present office: Chief Justice of the Australian High Court. Born the son of an humble Australian tailor, Sir Isaac will be the first "native" representative of the Crown in a Dominion. The Thunderer. Other London newspapers did not receive the Royal plaint. There was no "hand out" to the press. Alone "The Thunderer" (the London Times} spoke...
Cheers for Scullin. Announcement of the Scullin-Isaacs coup to the Australian House of Representatives last week was greeted with cheer on cheer. In the Parliamentary lobbies close friends of Mr. Scullin told of his verbal tussle, face to face with George V. The right of Australia (under the Imperial Conference decision of 1926) to dictate who shall be her Governor General naturally was not questioned by His Majesty. But the monarch sought to win Mr. Scullin over by expressing himself as "more than willing to do Australia the greatest conceivable honor," by sending out as Governor General...
While George V bowed in humiliation to the will of Australia's Prime Minister James Henry Scullin (see p. 17) one of His Majesty's representatives in the Australian state of New South Wales stoutly defied the local Premier of that State, Laborite J. T. Lang...