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...steps. Most ambitious was a plan to amalgamate the self-governing colony of Southern Rhodesia with the adjoining protectorates of Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland (see map). Together, the three territories would form a 475,000 sq. mi. Central African Federation, which might one day become Britain's eighth dominion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE COMMONWEALTH: Africa Emerges | 3/17/1952 | See Source »

...Gift of the week: $5,000,000 to Yale University from the Old Dominion Foundation, founded by Paul Mellon, '29, son of the late Secretary of the Treasury, Andrew W. Mellon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Report Card | 3/3/1952 | See Source »

Yale University officials kept busy receiving gifts over the weekend when the Old Dominion Foundation headed by financier Paul Melion gave them $5,000,000. Other grants of $2,000,000 and $400,000 were also received during the annual Alumni Day ceremonies...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Eli Gets Money on Alumni Day | 2/25/1952 | See Source »

President A. Whitney Griswold of Yale said that the Old Dominion Foundation gift would be used to strengthen the General Education program at Yale...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Eli Gets Money on Alumni Day | 2/25/1952 | See Source »

...voice "from I knew not where spoke to me. 'You are God's child . . . Nothing is more powerful than God's child. You were given dominion.' " What did it all mean? Cobina left the mystery for the mystics to explain, and hurried home to fasten her dominion on New York City. In a short time the young singer was surrounded by famous admirers (T.R. himself, she says, called her voice "Deelight-ful!"), won the patronage of the famed operatic soprano, Mme. Frances Alda, and married bestselling Novelist Owen (Stover at Yale) Johnson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Oregon Cyclone | 2/18/1952 | See Source »

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