Word: dominione
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...justification for their dominion over the Holy Land, the Hebrews point to past days of Biblical glory. However, such a far-off historical precedent does not warrant depriving the Arabs of a land they have held for over twelve hundred years. Deplorable as may be the persecution of the Jews in several European countries, the need for a haven of refuge is no excuse for them to oust a Moslem population of twice their number. One cannot help but sympathize with these desert dwellers in their fight against inundation by a flood of alien settlers, who have a diametrically opposed...
With the royal visit of Their Britannic Majesties, King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, only three months off, loyal Canadians could not let such treasonous talk go unnoticed. Authors, educators, businessmen hastened to disavow their mayor. French-Canadian members of the Dominion Parliament at Ottawa publicly disagreed with him. A raucous debate was expected. Minister of Labor William Tremblay of Quebec declared: "Mayor Houde missed his shot with the Communists and is now trying his luck with the Fascists, poor fellow." Noteworthy it was, however, that the Quebec Government of Premier Maurice Duplessis preferred not to enter the argument...
Buzzing cheerily over frozen Dominion tundra, Pilot Hume lost his vision because of a frosty windshield. He slowed down to clean it off by moving into a large snowbank at the side of the road, since it would save his rather feeble brakes undue exertion. Like the boy who tackled the snowman built around a fire hydrant Hume found that all is not snow that drifts. The ancient carriage demolished itself against a submerged culvert...
...sooty town of Sydney Mines, Nova Scotia there was cheer one morning last week. The Princess Colliery, owned by Dominion Steel & Coal Corp. Ltd., had announced that it was putting on extra shifts so that the miners could earn something for Christmas. Shops broke out with holiday decorations and Sydney Mines was festive. But the cheer lasted only...
...surface facts seem impishly simple: backed at first by an elderly Halifax financier, he engineered mergers of banks, utilities, steel and cement companies, collecting ever bigger commissions. His greatest merger, which formed the $37,500,000 Canada Cement Co. Ltd., was almost a Dominion scandal (which Beaverbrook blames on a disappointed rival). But he was already tired of mere moneymaking...