Word: commonwealths
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...COMMONWEALTH (British Commonwealth of Nations...
...headings, is vague and expansive. Reduced to simplest form, it constitutes an attempt to regain for the many branches of the Church a common, definite ethic. The international committee is composed of four groups: for the Protestant churches of Europe, for the Eastern Orthodox churches, for the British Commonwealth of Nations, for the U. S. Present at its sessions are such famed churchmen as: Dr. S. Parkes Cadman of Brooklyn, Dr. Arthur J. Brown of Manhattan, the Bishop of Winchester, the Metropolitan of Sofia, the Metropolitan of Thyateria...
...better position to know the facts about public utility enterprises than Samuel Insull of Chicago, President of the Commonwealth Edison Co. of Chicago, which controls the entire electric lighting business of the city. Accordingly, when Mr. Insull expressed his opinion regarding the recent astonishing speculation in utility stocks, the stock exchange hearkened and gave heed...
...COMMONWEALTH (British Commonwealth of Nations...
...London opened the first British Commonwealth Labor Conference. Ex-Premier Ramsay MacDonald, speaking on behalf of the British Labor Party, welcomed Labor delegates from Australia, Canada, India, Ireland (Free State and Ulster), Newfoundland, South Africa and the mandate of Palestine. To them he urged acceptance of a Commonwealth preference based not upon tariff reform but upon "large wholesale purchases by committees under Government control" which, presumably, would buy solely from the overseas British...