Word: dominions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Royal Curling Club of Edmonton, Alberta: the Dominion Championship Bonspiel; in Toronto...
...vote, taken alphabetically in French, began with a clerk's piping cry "Union Sud-Africaine !" and the gruff reply from that British dominion...
...Government found him far from his dominion, of which he is the tenth ruler. But he was neither napping nor, except intermittently, loafing. With his famed vice president, Elisha Lee, and a staff of high executives, he was halfway through his annual survey tour of North America. Routing his private car on a great swing down through the Southwest to Mexico City and up the Pacific Coast where he was last week, he had planned to swing homeward through Canada. Then came his country's call for counsel and advice, and almost simultaneously an advance copy of the report...
...Zealand went off the gold standard with Mother Britain. But was that going far enough? Last week secretive, soft-spoken Premier George William Forbes thought not. Really drastic reflation, he decided, is necessary to tide his Dominion through Depression...
While the Premier was drafting a Treasury decree rumors began to fly. New Zealanders rushed to buy English pounds, found that their New Zealand pounds were already quoted at 9% below English. When the Forbes decree was published it officially pushed this discount to 25%, meant that 1¾ Dominion pounds would thereafter be required to buy one English pound...