Word: dominions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...swearing in Halifax last week, an Englishman six ft. two in. tall, pale and of distinguished bearing, assumed the office of Governor General of the Dominion of Canada, to which he was appointed two months ago (TIME...
...Dominion Government, alarmed at the prospect, quickly arranged with London to pay $3,500,000 should Premier Lang really default. London bankers announced that ample Dominion funds were already on deposit in London to do this...
There was no surer way of rousing rage. Australians disagree among themselves about almost everything (State jealousy has given the Dominion three separate railway gauges) but they have in common a grand wholehearted despisal of anything and everything to do with...
...They are paying the foreigner first!" shouted Canberra M. P.'s last week. Dominion Prime Minister James Henry Scullin, more tactful, opined that "the impending default by New South Wales will undoubtedly have a detrimental effect on the good name of the Australian people and on their credit as a nation...
London papers headlined LANG'S MAD DECISION. "Lang has been as bad as his word," said the Manchester Guardian. In the House of Commons, Dominion Secretary Thomas announced that he had received "a most painful surprise." Although U. S. payments were promised, New South Wales bonds dropped on Wall Street from 62½ to 56. Outraged Australians talked darkly of putting the whole state under martial law. Members of the Commonwealth Parliament from northern New South Wales and the Riverina district threatened, like Yancey of Alabama,* to secede...