Word: dominione
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Skeptics shrugged when Director E. S. Archibald of the Dominion Experimental Farm ebullated at Montreal: "I can say without any hesitation, that Canada is now the best country for farming in the world! All our fisheries plus our mines and forests yielded less, last year, than the $1,167,000,000 produce of Canadian farms...
...Newfoundland both Canadian and U. S. "dollars and cents," by fostering exploitation of the illimitable Labrador forests, whence comes most of the wood pulp for Canadian and U. S. news organs, magazines, books. Ostensibly Sir Richard is perfectly willing that the Labrador forests should be transferred to the Dominion of Canada-for a sufficiently stiff price. But the exceedingly harmonious relations existing between him and the International Paper Co. with headquarters in Manhattan suggest that Sir Richard thinks a stiffer price can be got from Wall Street. The blatant nonsense about merging Newfoundland with the U. S. is probably...
...true destiny of Newfoundland, with her fisheries, her forests, and her mineral wealth lies in the direction of the United States. . . . The Dominion of Newfoundland is coming around to the idea of choosing to become one of the States. ... At present if a referendum were taken on this subject it would carry by a 75% vote of the whole electorate, not because Newfoundland has forgotten the old flag, but because the tendency of the times is to consider dollars and cents first. . . . Ten per cent of our population are continually going to and coming from the United States...
...fact, philosophy is challenged as never before. John Dewey, that supreme genius of mind and spirit, recognizes the philosophic possibility of subjecting this industrial civilization "to a more ordered dominion of the spirit...
...course the Royal Government will continue to deny Croatia-Dalmatia any such status de jure, but every year these two irrepressibly self-reliant provinces approach nearer to a de facto "dominion status." At present Croats and Dalmatians haughtily refuse to elect representatives of themselves in the Royal Parliament at Belgrade...