Word: dominions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cabled over last week, but copies were rushed down to Southampton and put aboard the S. S. Berengaria for delivery this week in the U. S. Even the new rates are "temporary,'' emphasized Sir George May; will probably be revised after Mother Britain has clucked with her dominion chicks at the coming Imperial Conference in Ottawa...
...Labor Party which recently voted sympathy with Eamon de Valera's fight for Irish freedom (TIME, April 11), has repudiated so many debts (promptly made good by the Commonwealth Treasury) that a bill to seize tax revenues of New South Wales was recently passed by the Dominion Parliament and upheld by the Australian High Court last week. Thus clothed with supreme authority, Premier Lyons promptly made proclamation to the citizens of New South Wales, ordered them to pay income taxes into his Federal Treasury and not into the State Treasury of their own defiant State Pcemier John Thomas Lang...
Eight deceptive weeks of peace & quiet in Newfoundland fooled Governor and Commander-in-Chief Sir John Middleton into thinking he could safely leave the Dominion last week and sail home for London's smart spring "season." Sir John's valet had packed his things. His secretary had booked him the best cabin on a boat sailing shortly from St. John's.* Over the teacups at Buckingham Palace candid Sir John would answer King George's queries about the rioting of Newfoundland's jobless (TIME, Feb. 22). If His Majesty, who goes deeply into such things, should ask whether a picture...
...conciliatory.'' will serve definite notice that he means to ask the Free State Parliament to abolish Oaths and Annuities when it meets April 20th. Privately. Irish lawyers who had advised Mr. de Valera, advised the Press that Canadian Premier Bennett had misinterpreted, in their opinion, the Empire definition of "dominion status." The Free State, after dropping the Oath, would still have its Governor General, they argued. The King would still appoint the G. G. and the Free State would still be "associated as a member of the British Commonwealth of Nations" though no longer "united in common allegiance...
...James's Palace spokesman recently, "the artist of the Royal Family. He plays various instruments and improvises even better than the Prince of Wales." Three, even two years ago Palace spokesmen were saying that King George was grooming Prince George to become the Governor General of a Dominion; they hinted New Zealand...