Word: commonwealths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Evidence from Ontario. Mackenzie King had good reason to blanch at the prospect of an election. August's Provincial election in pivotal Ontario had given the Progressive Conservatives 38 Parliament seats, the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation (whose backbone is organized Labor) 34, against 14 for Mackenzie King's Liberal Party...
...Commonwealth of Massachusetts is proud to join Harvard in welcoming you today. Your presence here at a moment when our countries are engaged in fighting together on a world-wide front tells us more plainly than words that victory in battle alone will not bring lasting peace; that true peace will come only with our better understanding of one another. Such understanding rests upon the knowledge which John Harvard sought to make more widely available...
...such a world, there would be four dominant nations: the U.S. in the Western Hemisphere, England in its far-flung British Commonwealth, Russia in Europe, China in the Far East. Each would try to prevent warfare in its own sphere and avoid conflicts with the rest. If they joined in any sort of international organization it would be loose and informal. They would try to postpone another war -but would never ascend to such idealism as thinking of World War II as a war to end wars...
Editor today, and largely responsible for the Economist's prestige, is plump, affable Geoffrey Crowther, 36, who studied at Cambridge, at Yale on a Commonwealth Fund Fellowship (Rhodes scholarship in reverse), then at New York's Columbia University. In the U.S. he acquired, besides an education, a wife. He worked in Wall Street (as a messenger for J. W. Seligman Co.), returned to London in 1932 to join the Economist. He became editor in 1938, when...
...Ontario province, where live a third of Canada's people, the Liberal party of Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King was bowled out of power last week. Hit from the right by the Progressive Conservatives, from the left by the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation, the Liberals were swamped by both opponents in the selection of 90 provincial legislators...