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Word: dominions (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...House of Commons swiftly returned a "humble address to the King" assuring George VI that it would do as he asked with all speed, but this applies only to the United Kingdom and its Crown colonies. George VI is in each Dominion separately King, and no act of the Mother of Parliaments can settle in London who is to be Regent as far as Ottawa, Canberra, Wellington, Cape Town or Dublin are concerned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Majesty's Own Hand | 2/8/1937 | See Source »

...notable Canadian banking retirement last week was the resignation of old Sir John Aird from the presidency of Canadian Bank of Commerce. In his farewell address the dean of Dominion bankers announced: "Prosperity returned to the greater part of Canada...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Bank Week | 1/25/1937 | See Source »

STERLING LARRABEE Master of Hounds The Old Dominion Hounds Flint Hill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 11, 1937 | 1/11/1937 | See Source »

This had to mean something because it was a President who spoke, otherwise it was almost Irish gibberish. If no further step is taken, the "dominion status" of the Free State under the Crown-which in any case does not exclude the right of secession-is left pretty much in its gossamer status...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRISH FREE STATE: Both Are the King | 12/21/1936 | See Source »

...ever to meet again; and 2) both Edward VIII and George VI are today King, according to this bill. By another technicality Edward VIII in the Union of South Africa will be King until its Parliament meets next Jan. 8 to confirm His Majesty's abdication in that Dominion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRISH FREE STATE: Both Are the King | 12/21/1936 | See Source »

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