Word: dominions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Throughout Europe, Asia and the Americas no reaction to what His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom had done was closer to the general consensus than the reaction of His Majesty's Government in the Dominion of Canada. Cried a Canadian Cabinet Minister close to Premier William Lyon Mackenzie King: "A shameless betrayal of the League! This will strengthen the hands of Canadian isolationists. After this, will anything seem important enough to take us out of our own continent...
...worth of purchases duty free. Farmers groused because U. S. fruits and vegetables had been given reduced duties. In Ontario, the region most affected, it was believed several Liberal members of Parliament would desert the Mackenzie King government when the trade treaty comes up for ratification in the Dominion Parliament. Said the Winnipeg Free Press...
...hand for an historic happening. Chief among the visitors was George Henry Dern of Salt Lake City, Utah. As Secretary of War, he was head of the Bureau of Insular Affairs, which had supervised Philippine affairs during the 37 years they had been under U. S. dominion. Now George Dern was in Manila to read a proclamation which Franklin Delano Roosevelt had just signed on the other side of the world in Washington. The proclamation briefly certified the election on Sept. 17 of officers of the new Philippine Commonwealth, announced the succession of the new regime...
...with costly pictures, and the furniture, imported from Paris and London, was rich, costly and tasteful." The dining room sideboard offered a hospitality as fine as could be found in Virginia, for Blennerhassett Island, discovered by Surveyor George Washington in 1770, lay within the broad boundaries of the Old Dominion...
...Flying Corps during the War cost him a kidney and his remaining kidney has now abruptly convinced him that it is Death to go on as Premier. Mr. Hepburn was said to be in acute pain last week, unable to sleep nights. His whirlwind swing around the entire Dominion during the General Election (TIME, Oct. 21) which made him for the first time a continent-wide figure, also overstrained his kidney. And Mitch believed last week that he faces angina pectoris. After the first shock of amazement, Ontario did not quite believe that its Premier will in fact resign after...