Word: commonwealths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lenin advocated cooperatives as an entering wedge of socialism. Last week Saskatchewan's first socialist (Cooperative Commonwealth Federation) government introduced a bill creating Saskatchewan's first Department of Cooperatives. Its job: to foster and develop cooperative enterprises...
...months ago, like his Chief of Staff, Lieut. General Richard K. Sutherland; men who had been sent out later to hib command, like his air chief, Lieut. General George C. Kenney; men who were going back to their homeland, like President Sergio Osmeña of the Philippine Commonwealth. There was-one notable absentee: Manuel Quezon, first President of the Commonwealth, who had died...
...conviction that the warrior statesman at the head of Russia will lead the Russian people-all the peoples of Russia*-through the years of storm and tempest into the sunlight of a broader and happier age for all, and that with him in this task will march the British Commonwealth of Nations and the mighty United States of America." Then the British warrior statesman climbed into his bomber, roared...
Days with Punch, Endicott Peabody was born in Salem, Mass, in 1857. His family tree was one of the oldest in the Commonwealth. One of his ancestors was Massachusetts Bay Colony Governor John Endicott, who hanged Nonconformist Quakers, but was the friend of Nonconformist Roger Williams. Another was Joseph Peabody, owner of one of Salem's finest East India fleets. When "Cotty" was 13, his father became a London banking partner of Junius Spencer Morgan, father of J.P. the First. From 14 to 19, Cotty attended Cheltenham College, preparatory school, where he became "tall, strong as a horse, graceful...
...largest corporate offerings ever made hiked the week's business to its record-breaking activity: 1) $180 million worth of Commonwealth Edison Co. and 2) $130 million of Philadelphia Electric Co. bonds. Like most big issues since 1934-when the easy-money era began- these two utility issues were for refunding purposes...