Word: dominione
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...Irish Free State has "dominion status...
Dutch Queen Wilhelmina, who counts her money in florins and cents, was right royally interested to learn last week that South Africans may soon be doing the same. In the British Dominion of the Union of South Africa many a citizen is of Dutch descent. When London's pound and shilling went off the gold standard (TIME, Sept. 28), Capetown's pound and shilling stayed on. This was inconvenient. Last week South Africa's legislators were rushing through a bill to create a new Dominion currency of florins and cents...
Minor League States including the British Dominions had begun last week by demanding that the League take action of some sort or at least that the Assembly name the "aggressor" (Japan). But slowly, artfully Sir John and other statesmen of the Great Powers got the minor nations in hand. As London's famed Spectator has said, "The motto of Sir John Simon is apparently l'artifice, l'artifice, et toujours l'artifice." Last week artful John, a lawyer accustomed to receive the largest fees charged in the Empire, made short work of such whippersnappers as, for example, the Delegate...
...there would still be left a $400,000,000 gap to fill. How? Where? Canada's lucrative sales tax seemed to be the only practical answer in sight. When the Ways & Means Committee began warming up to the idea of this levy, the Treasury asked the Dominion Government to send down George William Jones, Special Auditor of Excise Taxes in the Department of National Revenue at Ottawa. An expert advocate of the Canadian sales tax who had addressed William Randolph Hearst's junketeers last year on the subject (TIME, Nov. 30), Mr. Jones traveled to Washington. There...
...vote in Capetown last week when the Dominion of South Africa appointed a commission to investigate whether it should stay on the Gold Standard or follow England (and some 30 other nations...