Word: dominione
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...American Bar Association's Committee on Law Enforcement, arrived in London on a tour of inspection of crime conditions abroad. This same committee studied conditions in Canada last year and submitted a report showing that crimes in Chicago alone more than doubled in number those in the entire Dominion...
...Imperial Conference is a meeting of the Prime Ministers of all the self-governing dominions-Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Union of South Africa, the Irish Free State, Newfoundland-together with the secretary of State for India. In its original form it was called the Colonial Conference and first met when the Premiers represented their Dominion Governments at the Jubilee of Queen Victoria in 1887. In 1907, however, owing to its growing importance, its name was changed to the Imperial Conference and it was presided over by the Prime Minister of Great Britain instead of the Secretary of State...
...maintain a truly Indian army, officered and manned by Indians, and freedom for India to express herself as India and not as a semi-Anglicized Asiatic dependency. These aims are not incompatible with the existence of India within the British Commonwealth of nations, and, indeed, that ill-defined expression "Dominion Status" defines the present aims of the great bulk of Nationalists...
...adoption of the constitution of the Irish Free State marks the complete ratification of the Irish treaty. That no opposition will be met in the British Parliament has been virtually promised by Mr. Bonar Law. In essentials, the new constitution follows the British North American Act which gave dominion independence to Canada. If this form of government proves as successful in Ireland as it has worked out in Canada, the out-standing sore spot of the Empire will be healed...
...Acadia, St. Francis Xavier, New Brunswick and Mt. Allison,--are hard pressed to keep their means up to their standards. According to Dr. Sills of Bowdoin they are doing identically the same work and effectually "dissipating their energies, sacrificing the chief opportunity for contributing to the life of the Dominion...