Word: australians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last Sunday Preacher Shorter no longer was pastor of Pilgrim Church. The congregation which called him there eight years ago, chiefly at the behest of President Alfred Helmer Lundin of Seattle's Chamber of Commerce, had voted him out. Chief reason was that "Fred" Shorter, 39, Australian-born graduate of Missouri State University and Yale Divinity School, had. like many another thoughtful U. S. minister, turned Socialist. He believed that "Christianity and Capitalism as they now exist are not compatible"; that Christianity itself is "historic Communism." a peaceful force to transform the social order. Pastor Shorter promoted a "Consumers...
...They cross the Equator, weave through the maze of the East Indian Archipelago toward Australia's New Guinea and North Australia. In the shallow waters of the Coral Sea along the Great Barrier Reef, 1,000 mi. from home, they find what they want but it is in Australian waters. Long since, the Australian Government has protested to Tokyo via London against their poaching. But Japan had not the heart to discourage such energetic citizens. Last week Australia got ready a fleet of fast motorboat patrols to catch the heavy-engined sampans from the north...
...Mason concluded that while the NRA has two great disadvantages. It is difficult to say when output is adjusted to demand, and if the codes are to be enforced a much greater governmental bureaucracy would be required. The Australian plan attempts, by governmental action, to lower costs during a depression and to raise costs in time of prosperity. This scheme has been successful in Australia, but may not be suited to application...
...bodies of thousands of Anzacs piled on the beach at Gallipoli have built a monument of fame to Australia's soldiers that cannot be destroyed. Australia's Navy, however, is young, small and very green. There is just one victory to which Australian bluejackets can point with pride. In November 1914 the high-stacked German commerce raider Emden, almost at the end of its fuel after a spectacular career among Allied shipping in the Far East, was cornered off the Cocos Islands by the Australian cruiser Sydney, beached and burned with a great loss of life among...
From the Melbourne docks to the sheep farms of Walla Walla, Australia was searched. Australian detectives all summer long swarmed over foreign vessels, pried into every shipment leaving the country. Foreign police departments were asked to help. One by one reports came in. The bell was not in Tokyo, not in Canton, not in Shanghai, not in Hong Kong. Durban and Cape Town could not find it, nor could New Caledonia, Suva, Papeete, Singapore, Hawaii. Vancouver, Amsterdam and Liverpool were a blank and Manhattan Police Commissioner Bolan had no tidings...