Word: dominions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Supreme Court issued its now famous 6-2 California Decision on June 23, 1947. Justice Hugo Black's majority decision said that the United States possesses "paramount rights in and full dominion and power over" the lands under consideration. The Court further stated that the "State of California has no title thereto or property interest therein." The reasoning behind the majority decision was that former decisions referred to tidelands, and the strict definition of tidelands is the land covered by the ebb and flow of the tides. No court ruling had ever been made covering the area between this tideland...
...publication to maintain a regular news bureau in Canada and in Latin America. At present we have three news bureaus in Canada -in Ottawa, Montreal and Toronto- each headed by a bureau chief, and 24 local correspondents (called "string correspondents" or "stringers") in as many cities scattered throughout the Dominion. Each is a reporter or editor for a local newspaper like the Winnipeg (Manitoba) Tribune, the Halifax (Nova Scotia) Herald, or the Yellowknife (Northwest Territories) Blade. During the last six months the news file from Canada ran to more than a million words...
...them. Last week, after negotiations with the State Department and the armed forces, Virginia was rewarded. The Russian airmen, blond, 32-year-old Anatoly Barsov, and black-haired, 29-year-old Piotr Pirogov, were delivered to the U.S. for a grand tour of the Old Dominion...
Western Canada gave a significant sign last week of its growing independence in the oil business. The Dominion's second largest producer, British American Oil Co., Ltd., announced that it was reducing its imports of U.S. crude by 2,500 barrels a day, would cut them twice as much by month...
...commission found, he was a professional Communist. After a stint on the prairies as a laborer, he showed up in Montreal as an organizer for the Young Communist League. Within two years he joined the Communist Party (outlawed by an Ontario court in 1931 and by the Dominion government in 1940, reborn in 1943 as the Labor Progressive Party...