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...state visit to Canada this week, gave executive permission to New York State to join with the Dominion in building the $600 million St. Lawrence River power project...
Kwame Nkrumah. the wonder boy of West Africa, rose to fame & fortune by denouncing British imperialism in his booming colony of the Gold Coast. Last week, as Prime Minister of what soon may become the first black dominion in the British Commonwealth. Nkrumah came face to face with a starker imperialism. Cominform agents were infiltrating Sold Coast trade unions. Nkrumah, who got his education at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania, has borrowed ideas from Marx as well as from Jefferson (TIME, Feb. 9). He consulted his British advisers. They reminded him of what happened last month in British Guiana, carefully leaving...
...banks of the Zambesi River in Central Africa. Britain is trying to build a strong new dominion, rich in metals and farmlands, and able to protect itself from the black nationalism of the Gold Coast and the white nationalism of South Africa. Last week, barely half a year since the House of Commons gave the ambitious project its blessing, the Central African Federation was jarred by racial unrest among black man, Boer and Briton. 69,000 Boers. Sir Godfrey Huggins, 70, the wiry little surgeon who first conceived the notion of lumping the Rhodesias and Nyasaland into one big Central...
...time, the word came to Father Divine, self-proclaimed God-in-the-flesh: Philadelphia was going to have a visitation by Detroit's Prophet Jones, Dominion Ruler of the Church of the Universal Triumph, who has established a lien on divinity himself. Forth from Father Divine's headquarters in Philadelphia went a cordial invitation: Would the Prophet attend the consecration of the Father's new 73-acre heaven in swank suburban Montgomery County...
...until the Shields family moved to Sydney, Nova Scotia, in 1901, that young Corny got out in his first boat. His father, by then the president of the Dominion Iron & Steel Ltd., bought his family a 15-footer. In that, and in a later 25-ft. Class R type sloop, Corny learned what every good sailor must learn: how to anticipate and take advantage of every little change in weather and tide. By 1909, when the family was settled down in suburban New Rochelle, N.Y., 14-year-old Corny was the acknowledged skipper of the 25-footer...