Word: dominions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Each state or province of a Dominion has its own premier and its own governor, there being also a premier and a governor-general for the Dominion as a whole. Governors, no less than governors-general, derive their powers directly from the King who appoints them, theoretically, on the advice of the local premier. In practice the King used to appoint governors-general and governors much as he pleased, but George V has been forced to bow more & more to local sentiment, notably when His Majesty was forced to appoint Sir Isaac Isaacs, "a man he had never seen...
...Parliament Hill in Ottawa, rich & pious Richard Bedford Bennett, Canadian Premier, put through the House of Commons in a single hour and without a single dissenting vote the unanimous report of nine Canadians appointed last February to survey Dominion radio. Briefly the House approved in principle...
...Gradual emancipation of Canada from U. S. radio influence by the setting up of a coast-to-coast chain of powerful stations under Dominion ownership...
...self-respecting Dominion thinks of doing away with the oath!" shouted Sir Gerald Hurst, again taking up the cudgels. "The oath is simply a recognition of the common duty of citizenship. It is simply a symbol of recognition of the big things of national life...
Niggardly was the promotion bestowed by George V last week on Australia's Sir Isaac Isaacs "first native-born Governor General of a Dominion." Only the most strenuous Australian insistence moved His Majesty in the first place to appoint as representative of the Crown in Australia "a man whom the King has never seen" (TIME. Dec. 15, 1930). Last week Sir Isaac Isaacs, Knight Commander of the Order of St. Michael & St. George, was promoted not into the peerage but merely to Knight Grand Cross in the order of which he was already a Knight Commander...