Word: dominions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...London, newshawks located the couple still at Hampstead Town Hall where the marriage had taken place. Of the bride's family, only a younger sister Sheila had attended. Brother Malcolm was too busy in his office as Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs. A quiet ceremony had been decided upon, explained Ishbel, because of the recent death of her father (TIME, Nov. 22). "I'm not going to tell you about the honeymoon. I shall not say whether we are going to the Plow tonight," smiled the new Mrs. Ridgley coyly. Shy Mr. Ridgley, who listed himself...
...fixed standards of morality, and consequently no moral sense, can scarcely settle the question of war on moral grounds for Christians, . . . who see and know the injustice of practically all wars in our modern pagan world. There is the very practical question for informed Christians who acknowledge the supreme dominion of God. . . . WILL SUCH CHRISTIANS IN OUR COUNTRY FORM A MIGHTY LEAGUE OF CONSCIENTIOUS NON-COMBATANTS...
...House of Commons last week, Malcolm MacDonald, Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs, gravely announced that in State papers His Majesty's Government would henceforth refer to the ex-Irish Free State as "Airy." One or two parliamentary eyebrows rose but no M. P. questioned his statement. In Dublin, however, Eamon de Valera looked down his long nose with annoyance. The correct pronunciation of Eire, he firmly announced...
...reality Premier Duplessis is being used by these elements of reaction in order to put the quietus upon trade union activity, upon the growing unrest caused by the swelling of the ranks of the unemployed. Hence Duplessis' refusal to cooperate with the Dominion goverment upon a scheme of legislation for Unemployment Insurance...
Meanwhile it transpired that during the past few months Eamon de Valera, while ostensibly traveling between Dublin and Geneva on League business, has been making little stopovers in London, negotiating on the quiet with Britain's Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs, Malcolm MacDonald, the earnest, able, bespectacled, innocent-looking son of Scotland's late great Ramsay. Since 1932 the United Kingdom and the Free State have been engaged in a bitter tariff war, each deliberately rigging its schedules to hurt the other as much as possible. Another old sore is Free State resentment at the United Kingdom...