Word: dominions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week came the first definite official statement on the Labrador question. Sir William Ford Coaker, minister without portfolio in the Squires Cabinet, admitted that the Territory of Labrador had been offered to the Dominion of Canada for $100,000,000 net, or $833 a square mile...
...hair of premier James Henry Scullin has turned almost pure white this past year, so crushing were his burdens while the State of New South Wales weltered in a series of defaults which the Dominion Treasury had to make good (TIME. April 6, et seq.). Last week young, buoyant Australia kicked Mr. Scullin, who now seems "old" at 55, into the discard. Triumphantly placed in power by a general election which gave his supporters 51 seats out of the Australian Parliament's 75 was "The Honest Man from Tasmania," Joseph Aloysius Lyons...
Promptly Laborite Premier Scullin made Tasmania's Lyons Postmaster General and Minister of Public Works & Railways in the Dominion Cabinet. His big chance came almost immediately when a stench of scandal arose around the Dominion Treasurer, "Big Boss" Edward Granville Theodore. As a disinfectant "The Honest Man from Tasmania" was appointed Acting Treasurer. It is no secret that during Mr. Scullin's enforced absence of four months to attend the Imperial Conference at London in 1930, the real Premier of Australia was Mr. Lyons. Together he and the nominal Acting Premier, James Edward Fenton, did what they could...
...avoid squabbling and charges of favoritism, the Mother Country would not fix a separate quota for her imports from each Dominion. Instead British wheat importers would be required to show that a certain percentage of all their imports (55% was suggested), came from one or more Dominions. Inter-Dominion competition for the British market would thus be kept keen...
...make the quota law enforceable and prevent wheat 'legging, certificates of "dominion origin" would accompany each shipment and the British Government would check these certificates at the British importer's warehouse, then double-check at British flour mills, where each miller would be obliged by law to maintain the 55% "dominion proportion" in each & every sack of British flour...