Word: dominions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pursue a policy designed to re-establish . . . confidence in our financial stability and to frame plans for ensuring a favorable balance of trade." Carefully the speech avoided saying that these "plans" would include tariff. His Majesty also announced that last year's abortive economic conference of all British Dominion delegates at London will be resumed next year at Ottawa, added a pious allusion to the deadlocked Indian Round Table Conference: "It is my earnest prayer that the deliberations . . . may be crowned with success...
...round table conference-which he did not-the independence bloc would not attend. Chief cause of this Hurley-burly was that the swart little legislators felt slighted, and perhaps anxious at the Secretary of War's going around asking the people what they thought of U. S. dominion instead of coming to the people's duly elected officers for his information. Meanwhile, the trim War Chief kept going, kept asking questions. At Zamboanga he was told that 300,000 Moros were temporarily satisfied with American rule (total Philippine population: 12,604,100). A fatalistic delegation of them presented...
...London hearers would agree with his conclusions, they were amazed at his scientific erudition. They knew him historically as a Boer lawyer who bitterly fought the English subjugation of South Africa in 1900-02, who so made the best of defeat that his home land became a British Dominion and he eventually its Prime Minister and Empire privy councillor. In the World War he generaled a British Army. After the War he suggested the idea of the League of Nations to Woodrow Wilson, helped make the peace treaties. "Slim Janny" and "Happy Warrior" have long been his nicknames...
Ever since 1897 the Province of Quebec has remained unflinchingly Liberal. Last year, however, the rest of Canada turned Conservative with a vengeance and swept Dominion Premier Richard Bedford Bennett into power on a Canada-First platform tinted ever so delicately with anti-U. S. sentiment. Many Quebeckers voted for Bennett. Conservative tacticians decided that last week's provincial election was the moment to invade the province in earnest...
...casual reference to a time when he had helped out the Beauharnois company by signing two $500,000 checks in a single day. More startling to Canadians was news that Senator McDougald and William Lyon Mackenzie King had gone to Bermuda, not together but simultaneously, while Mr. King was Dominion Prime Minister. Mr. King arose in the House of Commons last week to explain. He had not traveled with Senator McDougald, he said. He had gone to Bermuda "to get a reciprocal tariff on fruit and vegetables." Senator McDougald had gone for his health and left Bermuda first. When...