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Word: dominione (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Again, one encounters a phrase. "Supreme Kingdom" in this connection does not mean the entire body of Christ's dominion on the earth. It is the name of an organization. A certain Edward Young Clarke, who, according to various exposes, is "extortioner, fraudulent publicity-man and Mann Act vio-lator," organizer of the Ku Klux Klan, has created the Supreme Kingdom. He created at the same time an "Organization Service Co. " to sell memberships in the Supreme Kingdom. Mr. Clarke made a great deal of money selling memberships in the Ku Klux Klan for $10 apiece, of which he kept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kingdom | 1/17/1927 | See Source »

Tenacious, Dutch-descended South Africans remember that scarce a quarter century has passed since the Boer Republic of their fathers was extinguished by Queen Victoria's armies. Moreover, the Dominion of South Africa is but 16 years old. To many a South African Boer* the possibility of disunion from the British Empire and a return to Republicanism seems an ideal not hopelessly remote from attainment. Therefore when General James B. M. Hertzog, Dutch-descended Premier of South Africa, returned last week from the Imperial Conference at London (TIME, Nov. 1 et seq.) all Cape Town awaited eagerly his first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Imperial Tone | 12/27/1926 | See Source »

...adoption of this definition was hailed as a magnum opus of Premier Hertzog of South Africa who alone had insisted with die-hard tenacity that the vague phrase "Dominion Status" be clarified once and for all (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Ships y Definitions | 11/29/1926 | See Source »

...Mexico City the newspaper Excelsior retorted: "The real truth is that the Yankee Government pretends to exercise absolute dominion over all America, and views with an evil eye Mexico or any other country able to have any foreign influence weakening that of the United States...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NICARAGUA: Evil Eye? | 11/29/1926 | See Source »

...part of the British Empire having neither more nor less than Dominion status...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News Notes, Nov. 22, 1926 | 11/22/1926 | See Source »

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