Word: bruces
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Five weeks ago Stanley Melbourne Bruce, youngest Prime Minister of a British dominion, was forced by canny, wrinkle-eyed ex-Premier William Morris ("Billy") Hughes to issue a call for a general election on the issue of abolishing Federal arbitration of trades union disputes (TIME, Sept. 23). The duty of the state to apply compulsory arbitration is one of the cornerstones of Australia's labor policy. Opposition members rose in Parliament, gleefully shouted "This is your swan song, Bruce...
...returns came in on election night last week, opposition members gravely I-told-you-soed, for Premier Bruce not only went down to defeat, but carried the entire Nationalist party with him. Late returns gave the Nationalists only 15 seats in the new Parliament to 46 for Labor. Chosen to succeed Stanley Bruce as Prime Minister of Australia was a sober middle-aged journalist and laborite, James Henry Scullin. As news of a Labor victory was broad cast, newsgatherers collected at the home of Australia's previous Labor Premier, Edward Theodore, likely candidate for the post of National Treasurer...
...Billy" Hughes, safely elected to Parliament, was less polite to the swan sung Bruce. Said...
...smart is William M. ("Billy") Hughes, kinetic oldster, Wartime Prime Minister of Australia. Fortnight ago he worked a shrewd wangle in the Dominion Parliament, caused the defeat by one vote of the Cabinet of his bitter personal rival for leadership of the Nationalist Party, youthful Prime Minister Stanley Melbourne Bruce (TIME, Sept. 23). This made necessary a General Election called for Oct. 12. Delighted with his disruptive handiwork, Billy Hughes celebrated one night last week by attending at Sydney, Australia, what he said was his first wrestling match...
...Hughes found himself, last week, as he started campaigning for re-election to the Dominion Parliament. He claims to be a Nationalist (he formed the Nationalist party in 1917) and would like to run as such, but because he engineered the defeat of his personal enemy Nationalist Prime Minister Bruce last fortnight, the Nationalist Party formally refused to endorse his candidacy last week. On the other hand, although he claims he is not a member of the Laborite Opposition, the Labor Party announced last week that they would run no candidate in North Sidney, his constituency, evidently intend to help...