Word: commonwealths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first try at governing a province (Saskatchewan), the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation is on trial. The challenge of the times to Canada's first socialist government: it must make a substantial show of bettering the lot of Saskatchewan's farmers-and Saskatchewan is largely an agricultural area. The alternative: yeasty, ambitious C.C.F. will never swing the farm vote in other provinces, will remain a minority party in Dominion politics. Last week Saskatchewan's Government turned up with new proof that it understands the challenge and is going out to meet...
...late, for they were going home for Christmas and they wanted to be off. Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King wound up his speech: "No succor could come to the enemy equal to that he will receive from anything that goes to show that a Parliament in ... the British Commonwealth ... is not united in support of its fighting men. . . ." Then (1:20 a.m.) the black-robed clerk finally rose, polled the members, bowed to the Speaker's chair and announced: "Ayes 143, Nays...
...front, there was the most representative Anglo-American audience ever gathered under one roof in Britain. Impeccable Anthony Eden was there, and Mr. & Mrs. Clement Atlee. Viscount Camrose received in the royal box, along with Viscount Trenchard, president of the American & British Commonwealth Association. Viscount and Viscountess Simon came in, also Sir Andrew and Lady Cunningham, Sir Charles and Lady Portal, Sir Alan and Lady Brooke. The U.S. was represented by Ambassador John G. Winant, and its soldiery...
...Eden's pointed hint in a recent House of Commons speech: "We could . . . use our close friendship with these countries [of western Europe] as a buttress to the strengthened general world structure. ... It gives us perhaps more authority with other great powers if we speak for the Commonwealth and for our near neighbors in western Europe" (TIME, Oct. 9). In other words, with the nations of the British Commonwealth and France, Holland, Belgium, Luxembourg, perhaps Norway and Denmark, girded round her, Britain would be a formidable Continental power...
...Texas, the U.S. Naval Academy, Harvard Law School, and private law practice in Manhattan. He joined the Department of Justice's Antitrust Division under President Hoover. There he won national renown by defeating Wendell Willkie in the historic battle of the Tennessee Valley Authority v. Commonwealth & Southern. Said Willkie: "He is the most dangerous man in America-to have on the other side...