Word: dominione
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...North Portal to The Pas, there are only eleven commercial banks. Canadian banking is branch banking in finest flower. But Canada is unique in that it has no central bank of issue, no Federal Reserve, no bankers' bank. Last week Premier Richard Bedford Bennett prepared to give the Dominion a quasi-public institution modeled after the venerable Bank of England...
...Bank of Canada is the legislative offspring of a Royal Commission's report on the Dominion's banking system. Last spring when Canada's Bank Act came up for its regular decennial overhauling, the furious farmers of the Prairie Provinces howled for a new system, for lower interest rates and "nationalization of credit...
Obviously Prisoner Rao had not set up his dominion over administrators and inmates of Welfare Island by sheer weight of personality. His outside backer, it appeared, was a certain Tammany district leader, identified by the Evening Post as a poker-faced man named James J. Hines, powerful throughout Harlem and Times Square as well as in his own Morningside Heights district. Hines was responsible for John Francis Curry's advance to Tammany leadership...
English reporters contented themselves with respectfully noting that Her Royal Highness appeared to enjoy the circus thoroughly. But the Canadian Press told its Dominion readers: "Elizabeth's happiest moment came when 'Whimsical Walker,' England's oldest clown (he is well past 80 years of age) came to the royal box and presented his familiar 'red hot' poker, which the princess laughingly grasped. The red paint didn't fool...
...Brooklyn since 1909, Democratic National Committeeman from New York; of myocarditis; in Brooklyn. A rotund, jovial man with sweeping white mustaches, he kept his machine firmly allied to Tammany Hall except for one quickly healed break in 1925. With the Fusion victory of last November he found his dominion slipping, saw Federal patronage dispensed in his own demesne without his consent...