Word: dominione
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Baldwin, however, the dominion is new territory, so, and if I may for the moment, speak as a Canadian, I should like to bid her and her family a true welcome to this land where people speak the word 'welcome' from the heart and do not say 'good-by,' but 'come again,' and mean...
...voting age they will constitute a considerable portion of the Islands' voting strength. In any consideration of the situation in Hawaii, it must be remembered that a relatively few Caucasian families, descendants of missionaries and traders who came to the Islands long before the arrival of U. S. dominion, control most of the Island wealth. The Islands are dominated by a comparatively small minority of their inhabitants...
...Free State is not Irish, is not Free, and is not a State." Small ingenuity is needed to support this very logical thesis, and the Countess gave to it all her great energies, demanding that a true "Irish Republic" be established, "instead of our present mongrel specimen of a 'Dominion...
...presiding over a series of Diamond Jubilee ceremonies lasting, on the principal day, from before noon until after midnight. Most impressive was the maiden ringing of a huge, sweetly toned new carillon from the Tower of the Canadian Parliament. As the bells pealed, their reverberations spread throughout the Dominion upon a network of repeatedly amplified radio waves...
...what extent has Canada progressed since her Constitution became operative 60 years ago? Significant facts: 1) The land which was "our Dominion" to Queen Victoria, in fact as well as phrase, is now a great nation, legally co-equal in political status with Great Britain, and independent within the British Commonwealth. 2) During the Jubilee period the population of Canada has increased from 3,500,000 to 9,500,000; railways from 2,278 miles of track to 40,000; industrial capital from $77,000,000 to $3,000,000,000; and occupied farm lands from 30,000,000 acres...