Word: dominions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Governor General Vincent Massey's book-lined study, a sternly handsome man with pale blue eyes took a solemn oath: "I swear to serve Her Majesty truly and faithfully in the place of her council in this Her Majesty's Dominion of Canada." Then John George Diefenbaker, 61, bent to kiss a Bible, intoned, "So help me, God." Thus, in a quiet ceremony, Canada's 13th Prime Minister since Confederation (1867) took office last week...
...discerning friend once wrote him: "You have translated Master Rudyard Kipling into music." For long, palmy decades, the world heard Elgar's brassy paddles chunking from Rangoon to Mandalay to Aldershot. When the trooper was on the tide, my boys, or when Tommy Atkins returned from defending dominion over palm and pine, or simply when the poor little street-bred people clustered around the bandstand at Brighton, Elgar's Pomp and Circumstance must ring out. Yet for all its imperial bombast, Elgar's best known composition also conveyed a sort of sweet innocence; compared to some...
Hospitality was the word for Old Virginia, and in honor of this year's celebration of the 350th anniversary of the settlement of Jamestown, the Old Dominion decided to put out the welcome mat for Old Virginians living outside the state. Down the lists of distinguished ex-Virginians went the official hosts; out to some 600 notables went engraved invitations to a reception May 17, arranged by the State Chamber of Commerce...
CANADIAN DOLLAR is at highest premium over U.S. dollar since 1933 because of heavy investing by foreigners in the Dominion. High for the week: $1,0472; close: $1,0455. But Canadian authorities are worried that rise is pushing export prices too high...
...East was studded with steppingstones in the form of British bases. Since World War II, the demands of Asian neutralism and nationalism have gobbled up one British naval or air station after another in the Indian Ocean area until only two remain between Africa and Singapore, both in the Dominion of Ceylon, and both now doomed like the others to be sacrificed to local nationalism...