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Braced by Canadian atmosphere, a raiding party of American professionals crossed the border and took the first nine places in the Ca- nadian open golf championship at Toronto. The Dominion's leading players passed out of the picture in early rounds...
...murder in the first degree and sentenced to death. The extreme rarity of such occurrences is apparent if it is realized that the former state, in which Cook County alone (according to the report of the investigating committee of the American Bar Association) has more crimes than the entire Dominion of Canada, has never executed a woman. The two sentences come a few months after the infliction of the death penalty in England, and it is noteworthy that public sentiment does not appear to protest...
...American Bar Association's Committee on Law Enforcement, arrived in London on a tour of inspection of crime conditions abroad. This same committee studied conditions in Canada last year and submitted a report showing that crimes in Chicago alone more than doubled in number those in the entire Dominion...
...Imperial Conference is a meeting of the Prime Ministers of all the self-governing dominions-Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Union of South Africa, the Irish Free State, Newfoundland-together with the secretary of State for India. In its original form it was called the Colonial Conference and first met when the Premiers represented their Dominion Governments at the Jubilee of Queen Victoria in 1887. In 1907, however, owing to its growing importance, its name was changed to the Imperial Conference and it was presided over by the Prime Minister of Great Britain instead of the Secretary of State...
...maintain a truly Indian army, officered and manned by Indians, and freedom for India to express herself as India and not as a semi-Anglicized Asiatic dependency. These aims are not incompatible with the existence of India within the British Commonwealth of nations, and, indeed, that ill-defined expression "Dominion Status" defines the present aims of the great bulk of Nationalists...