Word: dominione
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...Each state or province of a Dominion has its own premier and its own governor, there being also a premier and a governor-general for the Dominion as a whole. Governors, no less than governors-general, derive their powers directly from the King who appoints them, theoretically, on the advice of the local premier. In practice the King used to appoint governors-general and governors much as he pleased, but George V has been forced to bow more & more to local sentiment, notably when His Majesty was forced to appoint Sir Isaac Isaacs, "a man he had never seen...
...Parliament Hill in Ottawa, rich & pious Richard Bedford Bennett, Canadian Premier, put through the House of Commons in a single hour and without a single dissenting vote the unanimous report of nine Canadians appointed last February to survey Dominion radio. Briefly the House approved in principle...
...Gradual emancipation of Canada from U. S. radio influence by the setting up of a coast-to-coast chain of powerful stations under Dominion ownership...
...Supervision of Canadian broadcasts by a Dominion commission charged with improving the quality of programs...
British System. The U. S. has 609 radio stations, no license fee for receiving sets. Canada has 66 stations. It taxes receivers $2 per year, figures that there are some 100,000 "bootleg sets" in the Dominion. In the British Isles there are 22 stations, all directed from the B. B. C. flatiron. The license fee of ten shillings per set (about $1.80 at current exchange) supplies the chief revenue of the B. B. C. and most listeners feel they get their money's worth. From licenses B. B. C nets around $4,500,000 per year, nets another...