Word: dominione
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...only Simpson's of Toronto but every other Canadian bookseller was last week piling up royalties for the arriving Governor-General, and the Dominion will pay him directly $43,799 per year...
...Silver Jubilee book on the Empire & King, Mr. Buchan achieved his final masterpiece of subtle flattery. When Canadian Premier Richard Bedford Bennett then advised Buckingham Palace that "Mr." Buchan would make a fine Governor-General (part of Canada's reason being that, after 14 peers, the Dominion wanted a commoner), His Majesty proved so oversold on the nomination that he not only made Commoner Buchan his Governor-General but enthusiastically dubbed him Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael & St. George, then capped this knighthood and vexed many Canadians by raising him to the peerage...
Resumed at once was the impenetrable mask of words behind which John Buchan lives. Tendered a congratulatory dinner in London by 600 Canadians and the Dominion High Commissioner, he flattered them directly for half an hour, then provoked them to pleased mirth by this witty hyperbole: "In one sense Canada is Britain's senior. Constitutionally, all the 'autonomous units' of the Empire are to-day equal sovereign States under one king. They are 'Dominions' and of these Dominions, Canada is the oldest and Britain the youngest...
...attempted briefly to ape President Roosevelt's New Deal (TIME. Jan. 14) but this was dead in Canada last week and all but forgotten. From the first, Canada's alert voters sensed that the Bennett Deal, like the Roosevelt, was in many respects unconstitutional and unworkable, the Dominion's constitution being the British North America Act which aggressively protects provincial rights from encroachment by the Federal Government...
...method of artful understatement and its success, which has already been sensational abroad, should be a lesson to his Hollywood imitators. The film is an adaptation of a novel written 20 years ago by John Buchan, now Lord Tweedsmuir, who next month will go to Canada as that Dominion's Governor-General (TIME, Aug. 19). This high-placed connection made it possible for the British film industry to improve notably upon Hollywood methods of ballyhoo. The premiere of The Thirty-Nine Steps in London was preceded, not by a mere broadcast, but by a Gaumont-British banquet at which...