Word: commonwealths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...conscription, snorted that the "Government has now looped the loop three times." but sided with Mackenzie King's Liberals. Forty-five Quebec Liberals bolted their Party, voted against the measure. They picked up two Quebec independents, one rebellious Ontario Liberal and six members of the schoolmarmishly socialistic Cooperative Commonwealth Federation...
...seen in England; earnestly to recommend Britain's "great determination to maintain after the war the kind of equity in distribution which the war has forced." There was an Assistant Secretary of State who pointed out how the principle of Lend-Lease could serve a world commonwealth as it is now serving the United Nations...
...pleased with themselves. Said a village physician: "We did a good job. We didn't lose a single survivor-or a single first-aider." The regional director's comment on the local report sounded like Revolutionary days: "I can add no word to this. God bless the Commonwealth of Massachusetts...
Returns from the first week of the nation's scrap rubber drive show that the Commonwealth of Massachusetts lags far behind the rest of the nation in per capita collections. The figure for the entire country shows that only one and a half pounds have been collected per person-a woefully small figure. But Massachusetts, on the same basis, has contributed a mere quarter pound-four ounces-for every man, woman, and child. To put it graphically, this means about one worn baby carriage tire for each person. And when one realizes that our nation will be seriously handicapped unless...
Renner's Europe consists of nine great states: a commonwealth of Great Britain and Holland, a Fennoscandic Union (Iceland, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Esthonia), Czecho-Polska ("already being planned by the Czech and Polish Governments-in-exile" and including Lithuania), a Balkan Union ("Some trouble may be expected from the Bulgars"), Italy (plus Dalmatia, Tunisia, Corsica, Nice), France (minus Alsace-Lorraine, plus the Spanish Basque provinces and parts of Switzerland), an Iberian Union (Spain and Portugal), Russia (with Latvia, and a corridor to the Dardanelles), a German-Magyar State (Germany, Austria, Alsace, part of Switzerland, Hungary...