Word: dominione
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...Street buzzed with rumors that the Aliens and allied U.S speculators had gobbled up 35% of Sun Life's stock. Out to Sun Life's Canadian stockholders went frantic telephone pleas from company officers not to sell, to "keep this fine old Canadian company Canadian." At the Dominion Insurance Office's behest, Canadian Finance Minister Douglas Abbott took one step to repel the invaders. He announced last fortnight that he would sponsor a bill to "freeze" Canadian insurance companies' dividend-payment policies...
...Canadians were financing their own future. While British and U.S. capital, which helped develop Canada in earlier days, is still welcomed, the Dominion is no longer dependent upon it. Canadians themselves are now plowing back more than 20% of their earnings into expansion and new developments...
...sherry." He loves baked Virginia ham. The story goes that a soldier some years ago lost a Virginia ham that he was supposed to deliver to the general. In a panic, the soldier bought a ham from the nearest butcher, tried to palm it off as a genuine Old Dominion product. Almond detected the fraud, ordered the soldier to write 25 concise words on the differences between ham and Virginia...
When Britain went to war with the Boers in 1899, the bookish lawyer became a commando general whom the British soon learned to respect. When the war was over, Smuts used both toughness and brilliance to persuade the British to give South Africa dominion status, and Britain's former enemy turned into Britain's enduring friend. Many a Boer called him "Slim [sly] Jannie" thereafter...
...Smuts swung South Africa to the Allies, helped capture German SouthWest Africa. Later he led the campaign that won German East Africa. He was summoned to London as the only dominion member of the British War Cabinet. It was Smuts who proposed the new name-soon adopted-for the British Empire: "The British Commonwealth of Nations...