Word: dominions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sugar production inside the U. S. tariff wall. The Spanish War added Porto Rico, the Philippines and Guam as imperial outposts, gave the U. S. a protectorate over Cuba. From the 1902 revolution in Panama the U. S. got land for the canal, laid the foundation for U. S. dominion over the Caribbean. Theodore Roosevelt, if not an imperialist, was a master empire-builder; he enlarged the Monroe Doctrine, took over the collection of the Dominican customs. The sphere of U. S. influence in the Caribbean widened; other powers were shut out as the U. S. undertook...
...president and a director at 33) became president of Imperial Oil, Ltd., then and now Standard's Canadian subsidiary. With the outbreak of the War, the tremendously increased demand for petrol enabled Mr. Teagle to develop Imperial Oil from a small company to the second largest corporation in the Dominion. Then, in 1917, when the U. S. entered the War, Mr. Teagle was made president of Standard of New Jersey (A. C. Bedford was moved up to the board chairmanship) to repeat his successes in Wartime expansion. In 1927 he supervised the reorganization of Standard of New Jersey from...
Canada has a few fess than 10,000 doctors. Last week 60 of them, professors in one or another of the nine leading medical schools of the Dominion, met at Ottawa and formally organized a Royal College of Physicians & Surgeons of Canada. The other seven dozen medical professors in the schools are to become Charter Fellows ipso facto, according to the enabling law passed by the Canadian Parliament last year...
...allied countries except Great Britain, Canada, Australia and the Irish Free State have made such restitutions. Notably the U. S. has paid Germany $300,000,000. The British Dominion of South Africa has made a separate settlement with the Reich, ignoring the British Conservative policy of "no restitution" which Laborite Philip ("Spongecake") Snowden is carrying...
...Each Dominion has a Prime Minister not subordinate but equal in rank to James Ramsay MacDonald, who is only "His Majesty's Prime Minister in Great Britain...