Word: commonwealths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...best pupils Dancing Teacher Arthur Murray ever had was wry-faced little Manuel Luis Quezon (pronounced kay-son'), President of the Commonwealth of the Philippines. Gay, nimble Mr. Quezon, who one night took out 16 Murray instructresses all at once, quickly became a tango expert. To the U. S. State Department, and to U. S. citizens with large investments in the Philippines, Mr. Quezon has been a tango expert ever since-and his dizzying cavortings have given them more than one headache. Last week, as Japan went into new and ominous activity the eyes of the U. S. were...
...crucial question whether Australian Labor could now force a test at the polls and, if victorious, proceed to make the Commonwealth out-&-out Socialist was adjourned while obsequies of the senior Ministers and Chief of Staff were held, with new U. S. Minister to Australia Clarence Gauss in attendance. While the Prime Minister quietly took his political soundings, Major General John Northcott was promoted to act as new Chief of the Australian General Staff. The late Chief, Sir Brudenell White, was buried last week in a little brush cemetery a few miles from his ranch...
Nominee Willkie, after a dash home, headed downtown for Commonwealth & Southern Corp.'s offices at 20 Pine St., just around the corner from Wall Street. If Democrats expected him to play down his utility connections at that late date, they guessed wrong. Candidate Willkie continued to act as one who had nothing to be ashamed of, even as if his business were a campaign asset. For his first week of politicking he made his old office his headquarters. He put off the effective date of his resignation from his $75,000 C. & S. presidency until this week (July...
...only member of the British Commonwealth not to declare solidarity with England, Eire was still neutral last week, and with her minuscule Army, insignificant Air Force, and practically nonexistent Navy, she was determined to fight off invasion from every side. England, separated by less than 75 miles of water, was more uneasy about the Irish than at any time since 1938, when, over Churchill's violent protest, Neville Chamberlain had voluntarily evacuated the British naval bases in Eire. From Brittany German planes could hop to the centre of Eire without crossing English territory. The I. R. A., a well...
...believe that Britain's poison is their meat. With German hemlock close to British lips last week, India seemed to have quit talking about dominion status as the price of docility. The London Times's Simla correspondent anxiously reported: "An offer of full freedom within the British Commonwealth no longer meets the [Indian National] Congress case, which . . . asks for complete independence outside the orbit of the British Commonwealth...