Word: australian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York, Eddie Rickenbacker announced that he was making good his promise to the first over-26 fighter in the Australian Theater-a case of Scotch...
Seeking to improve their style by scrimmaging with a more experienced team, Harvard's rugby squad lost their game with the New Zealand-Australian Navy team on Saturday by a score of 12 to 5. Inexperience and lack of coordination among the players were the two main factors in the Crimson defeat...
...Australians, twice committed to foreign wars along with Britain, increasingly insist that the whole Commonwealth should share in the making of British policy. Prime Minister Curtin has suggested an ambulant Empire Council with a permanent secretariat to frame policies. Lord Halifax, one of Britain's senior statesmen, was closer to Australian than to Canadian Government opinion when he suggested a common policy in which the Commonwealth would speak "not by a single voice but by the unison of many...
Uncomfortably Close. Tokyo Rose's voice is wafted over the Aleutians and the South Pacific on a stronger, clearer signal than any provided by U.S. radio. She can usually be heard around 8 p.m. daily, Australian time, short or medium wave, on a 65-minute show designed for U.S. armed forces in the South Pacific. Her specialties, assisted by a male announcer who sounds not unlike Elmer Davis, are News from the American Home Front and the jazzical Zero Hour. News purports to be a rehash of U.S. domestic broadcasts. It is angled, but has some basis in fact...
...West Coast correspondent for Lord Beaverbrook's London Daily Express was one of the busiest men in Los Angeles last week. Covering the Mann Act trial of Charles Spencer Chaplin for both British and Australian newspapers, he had to file two separate stories every day. For Britons, to whom British Subject Chaplin is still the lovable, great little cockney comedian, he was carefully sympathetic. But for Australians he could be tougher and more realistic...