Word: giving
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Amendment Blocked. Successive Governments have been trying since 1911 to get Australia's Constitution amended to give the Dominion Arbitration Court really sweeping and effective powers. On four different occasions the state legislatures have refused to pass the amendment. Finally last May courageous Prime Minister Bruce announced a totally new and startling policy...
Nationalist than his personal foe the Prime Minister, astute William Hughes took the attitude that it would be the very negation of Nationalism to follow the Bruce plan of handing over the states the whole duty of labor arbitration, simply because the states have again and again refused to give the Dominion Court supreme authority. Instead, he thought that the Nationalist Party should keep resolutely plugging for the constitutional amendment which thus far has proved unobtainable...
...Britons who moved out last week were early birds, first of a host of evacuations which will keep moving all through the early winter. Cheerfully their bands blared "Tipperary," "John Brown's Body," and even "I Can't Give You Anything But Love?Baby!" But the Rhineland villagers and the citizens of Wiesbaden stood lowering, glum. Only at Koenigstein did the local mayor pay a grudging honest tribute...
...Britons admitted they were out for Argentine trade. Hospitably they were toasted and cheered. "Welcome! Welcome to Argentina!" cried Dr. Joaquin Sanchez de Anchorena, oldtime toastmaster of El Club. "I cannot praise too highly British achievement in stock-raising and horse-breeding. Rest assured we are ready to give preferential attention to the aims of your economic mission...
...proceedings had been sufficiently decorous, but now Sir Malcolm Robertson, British Ambassador to Argentina and not a member of the d'Abernon Trade Mission, hove up upon his feet and cried: "Let the price of Argentine meat and wheat rise! Thanks to the work which you are going to give the British workman he will be able to meet these conditions with the extra money which will be put in his pocket...