Word: commonwealths
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...thanks in advance to Doug Baker for arranging the swell blowout for Monday night, and to "Had" Haddaway for consenting to toast-mast (er?). If we can keep up with Had's double talk, things'll be fun. It starts flowing at 1800, at the Harvard Club of Boston, Commonwealth and Massachusetts Avenues (Mass. Ave. Station), and first on the programme are "unlimited cocktails" until 1845. Featured on the dinner will be Mushroom Soup, Roast Beef and Strawberry Sundae, garnished with Midshipman entertainment, some tavern harmony led by "Jake" and a very few remarks from the honored guests. Captain McIntosh...
Capricornia is what every frontier story should be - tough, sprawling, rampant with physical action. This roaring story of the opening of Australia's equatorial north, published already in half a dozen European countries, won its author the Commonwealth Government's Sesquicentenary Prize...
...British Commonwealth and the nations of Western Europe wish to enjoy closer association with us, and if for our part we wish similarly to link ourselves with them, the way . . . is clear. All they need to do is adopt written constitutions and apply for membership and all we need do is accept them. . . . Great Britain could come into the union, for example, as four States. . . . Canada could constitute another State. Australia, New Zealand and the contiguous islands might form still another...
Speaking in a dual capacity as governor of the Commonwealth in which the University has grown from such small foundations to its present size and as a leading alumnus of the College, Saltonstall commented on the contrast between the outlook for youth in America and in occupied lands abroad...
News and intelligence of the English-speaking countries has in the past got around the globe more readily because of two things: the world-girdling British Commonwealth of Nations and the electrical communications systems that serve it and the United States. The most extensive cable service in the world (165,000 nautical miles) is provided by Cable & Wireless, Ltd., a great "combine" owned in part by the British Government, whose rates are not only lower on intra-than on extra-Imperial traffic, but in the case of Australia are made still lower by Government subsidy of messages...