Word: dominione
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Sensitive about the fact that they were never quite a ''dominion,'' the legislators of St. John's referred to Newfoundland as an '"island" in the Great Sentence of their resolution. Text...
Newfoundlanders have called themselves a "Dominion" so often that the habit of thinking of them as such has spread throughout the Empire and the World. In law, however, Newfoundland is still a colony, even though a self-governing one. Taking full advantage of this fact the Amulree Report proposed that Newfoundland's Government revert under the Crown to His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom, which took over in an emergency last month the Government of Malta (TIME...
...elected. Patriotic Britons highly approved of that. But the British taxpayer winced when it appeared last week that he must guarantee the debts of thoroughly insolvent Newfoundland. As Newfoundland bonds bounded up on the news, Britain's famed Manchester Guardian, its excited editors ignoring Newfoundland's non-dominion status, asked: "Is this claim to suppress the Dominion constitution in order to avoid default on external debt payments to be confined to Newfoundland? If so, on what peculiar theory of Empire relationships is the claim based? Are the financial arguments strong enough to justify such interference? In a word...
Although it is difficult to see how a staged rally such as this can have any serious results either in inspiring a football team which will be four miles away in Belmont at the time, or in permanently demoralizing the dominion of indifference, it is disappointing that Harvard should succumb under pressure to the revival of a custom it had wisely disposed of. The attitude of undergraduates ion the last few years towards football cannot scathingly be termed indifferent; it has simply been a sane attitude which marked Harvard as being years ahead of other colleges in this respect...
...stocks of defunct jewelry firms still hang unsold over the market and even the desire for possession of tangible goods as a hedge against Inflation has not led to any appreciable buying of jewels-possibly due partly to fear that if the South African diamond syndicate operating under that dominion's Precious Stones Act of 1927 ever let go its artificial limitation of supply, owners of diamonds might be left high & dry. But although Americans are not hoarding precious stones, and cannot hoard the No. 1 precious metal, gold, there has been a large demand...