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...Philip Bahn '49 began the home argument by stating that "there was no other way to get autonomy in 1776 or 1783" than outright revolution. There was no such thing as Dominion status then, he said, and America would not have become a great nation if it was not set "free of British restrictions" on industry and expansion...
This money, together with $5,000 from the Mellon Foundation's Old Dominion Trust, and a number of private donations, constitutes over half of the Seminar's $60,000 budget for this summer's operation. A drive is now in progress all over the country to obtain the balance from individual donations...
Those favoring the bill for federal ownership concentrate their views on the Supreme Court decision. They say that since the states never owned the land the states have no rights to be considered whatever. Since the United States has "paramount rights and full dominion" in this land, why should the government give the land away? How can the federal government, they argue, give land in which all the states have an interest to three states? This, they say, would be a quitclaim, and they see no reason...
...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...
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...