Word: dominions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...matter of fact, there remained Australia, a young and frequently obstreperous British dominion. Had rich Mr. Morgenthau, who made his millions in Bronx real estate, forgotten or ignored Australia? By the time newshawks seriously put that question Uncle Henry was already a wheat hero, cackling to everyone his best anecdotes about the days when President Wilson sent him as Wartime Ambassador to Turkey and such yarns as the one about the time he caught Governor Montagu Norman of the Bank of England "with his vest unbuttoned." (Governor Norman, lolling back with unbuttoned vest, refused to loan an additional...
...Herriot had been greeted in French by the President on the White House portico, a limousine drove up and out popped Canada's pious Premier Richard Bedford Bennett. Almost simultaneously Canada's Finance Minister Edgar Nelson Rhodes, in Ottawa, was announcing that Canada had ceased redemption of Dominion notes in gold...
...With Secretary of State Hull, President Roosevelt motored to the patioed Pan-American Union Building to address a meeting of the Pan-American Union's governing board. The President interpreted the Monroe Doctrine to his listeners not as an instrument of U. S. dominion over the Americas, but as a mutual protective society "aimed against the acquisition in any manner of the control of additional territory in this hemisphere by any non-American power." For the first time, President Roosevelt took public notice of South America's two undeclared wars between Paraguay and Bolivia, Colombia and Peru...
...depression is very much in evidence in the Dominion, but Dr. Cody believes that it is somewhat less extensive than it is this side of the border. He stated that in his opinion the Canadian students are barder workers and live more simply than those in the United States. "You're the richest country in the world, you know," he added, "even if you are having your bad moment...
...Francis Alexander Anglin, brother of Actress Margaret Anglin, who died recently. Even in Canada the appointment of pink & white Judge Duff did not receive the attention that a new Chief Justice in the U. S. would have. Canada's Supreme Court is the highest court in the Dominion, but Canadian subjects still have the right to appeal from it to the British Privy Council. Liquor laws, wage and labor decisions that take up so much of the U. S. Supreme Court's time, are decided in Provincial Courts. Canada's Supreme Court, like Canada's Senate...