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...Plaskett, director of the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory, Victoria, B. C., has just arrived at Harvard to spend two or three weeks. He is a special student of the rotation of the Galaxy, and has in his charge the second largest telescope in the world, the property of the Government of Canada. Dr. Plaskett is the father of Professor H. H. Plaskett of the Harvard Observatory...
...were the repercussions of this story. "Considering his position as Prime Minister of Great Britain," thundered Father Dowd of Ottawa's St. Theresa's Church, "the words were an insult to about half the people of Canada, who adhere to the Roman Catholic Church." Montreal. Largest of Dominion cities, fifth most important seaport in the world, terminal headquarters of both the Dominion's great railway systems (Canadian National, Canadian Pacific), and busy mistress of nearly 3,000 factories, great Montreal* staged a mighty welcome...
...born." In the afternoon he signed the Golden Book of the Rockefeller-gifted University of Toronto, received the crimson hood of an honorary LL.D. At lunch in the Men's Canadian Club he said: "Unless we can preserve the bond of reverence between us [Great Britain and the Dominions] nothing else can take its place." He asked their cooperation in getting more Canadian orders for British factories according to the plan recently outlined on a whirlwind tour of the Dominion by big, blarneying British Minister of Unemployment James Henry ("Jim") Thomas (TIME, Sept. 2). Ottawa. The quiet city dubbed...
Five weeks ago Stanley Melbourne Bruce, youngest Prime Minister of a British dominion, was forced by canny, wrinkle-eyed ex-Premier William Morris ("Billy") Hughes to issue a call for a general election on the issue of abolishing Federal arbitration of trades union disputes (TIME, Sept. 23). The duty of the state to apply compulsory arbitration is one of the cornerstones of Australia's labor policy. Opposition members rose in Parliament, gleefully shouted "This is your swan song, Bruce...
...wooden ship used by the late Sir Robert Scott, who reached the South Pole (January 1912) one month after the late Roald Amundsen did. Sir Douglas does not intend to visit Commander Byrd. His aim is to explore the Antarctic coast south of Australia and prepossess it for his dominion. Formal and hurried pre occupation is important, for it would vest in Australia rights to fisheries and miner als which later may be found...