Word: dominione
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...House that the Government intended ito promote the home production of beet sugar by granting a subsidy of 19 shillings and sixpence-about $4.25-per hundredweight (112 Ibs.)-to the industry. ¶ J. H. Thomas, Secretary of State for the Colonies, informed the House that the system of dominion representation at the Premiers' Conference had been most unsatisfactory, and that the Government proposed to call a Commonwealth conference in or about October to settle the procedure of giving the Dominions an effective voice in the Commonwealth's foreign policy. ¶ The Chancellor of the Exchequer outlined the Government...
Some 13,000 Boy Scouts assembled in the stadium at the British Empire Exhibition for an "Imperial Jamboree." Every Dominion, Colony and dependency in the British Commonwealth of Nations was represented. There were white scouts, black scouts, chocolate scouts, bekilted scouts, befezzed scouts and beturbaned scouts. The Duke of Connaught, President of the Boy Scouts Association, opened the Jambo ree. Chief Scout of Wales, Edward Windsor, Prince of Wales, officiated at the opening of the Jamboree ceremonies
...those who see in the appointment of an Irish envoy to Washington the first move toward the establishment of an Irish republic, that the Government was convinced that peace and friendship could be maintained in Ireland only by the existence of the Free State as a self-governing dominion within the British Commonwealth and in no other...
...held that it was fundamentally wrong to tax food and stated that his budget (TiME, May 12) had been introduced with a view to the abolition of all food taxation. If the preference resolutions were passed, said he, "taxation on food would have to be increased, because the Dominions could not supply the demand in the British Isles." He informed the House, however, that he was negotiating with the Dominion Governments' proposals for a permanent economic council "to increase the consumption of Dominion foodstuffs in Britain...
...entourage entered the exhibition grounds in four State carriages, escorted by the Royal Horse Guards?a picture of scarlet, gold and steel?the Royal Standard was hoisted to flutter in the wind alongside the Union Jack. Seemingly in the shadow of these two emblems floated the flags of every dominion, colony and dependency of the Commonwealth. This medley ot flags was symbolic of an empire of 13,356,751 square miles and 449,370,000 people of all races, colors and creeds united under the rule of one Sovereign, His Most Excellent Majesty, George the Fifth, by the Grace...