Word: held
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Prime Minister was obliged to ask dissolution of the Dominion Parliament, thus necessitating a general election. Swan Song. Flushed and angry was the mien of Prime Minister Bruce as he stood up before Parliament in the new Australian Capital of Canberra to announce that the election will be held Oct. 12. He had been in power for six years. Now from the Opposition benches rose shouts of "This is your swan song, Bruce!" Perhaps it was. But if he loses the Prime Ministry after the election Mr. Bruce will at least have the satisfaction of knowing that he failed...
...like most U. S. citizens, shy away from the idea that the State should fix wages. But that idea has been the very cornerstone of Australia's labor policy. Moreover such Best Minds in the Dominion as the late and monumentally famed High Court Justice Higgins have consistently held that it is the duty of the State to apply compulsory arbitration. In trying to enforce these concepts a major issue has arisen: Shall the power of enforcement rest with the several Dominion states or with the central Dominion authority? Back in the early '903 the Australian states...
...they did not relax. They knew that tart, vital words would follow the fulsome compliment. Two days previously Il Duce had given his Cabinet the most dramatic shaking up in the history of his regime. He had kicked himself out of seven* of the eight Cabinet ministries he previously held -retaining only the portfolio of Interior and of course the Prime Ministry. Wildest rumors were current as to what this might portend: 1) That he had negotiated a secret pact of union between Italy and Hungary and was clearing his decks to become Supreme Chancellor of this dual realm...
Three Underdogs Up. The other three ministries vacated by Il Duce were all entrusted to men who held the corresponding under-secretaryships up to last week. General Pietro Gozzera, who served with Italy's Chief of Staff during the World War, becomes Minister of War. Rear Admiral Giuseppe Siriani, one of the most brilliant and successful seadogs in the Italo-Turkish War of 1911-12 gets the Marine Ministry. Finally the Ministry of Corporations goes to scintillant polemist and war veteran Giuseppe Bottai. As editor of Roma Futurista, Epoca and Giornale di Roma at various times...
...were gathered in the silver exchange. In Peking and Shanghai similar groups were gathered. They too were selling. When they were through selling last week silver prices in London and Wall Street reached the lowest low in ten years: approximately 50⅞? an ounce. A month ago Chinese speculators held approximately 20,000,000 ounces of silver, at the end of last week they had sold 50,000,000, were apparently on the short side to the extent of 30,000,000 ounces. No El Dorado but an El Argento is China. It is the only important country...