Word: newfoundlands
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...London opened the first British Commonwealth Labor Conference. Ex-Premier Ramsay MacDonald, speaking on behalf of the British Labor Party, welcomed Labor delegates from Australia, Canada, India, Ireland (Free State and Ulster), Newfoundland, South Africa and the mandate of Palestine. To them he urged acceptance of a Commonwealth preference based not upon tariff reform but upon "large wholesale purchases by committees under Government control" which, presumably, would buy solely from the overseas British...
...Dominions (Canada, Newfoundland, Australia, New Zealand, Union of South Africa, Irish Free State), i.e., those which have autonomy, have claimed since the War a right to be consulted on all foreign-policy questions in which they may be vitally interested. Britain granted the right, but all efforts to set up political machinery to effect it have failed. The new arrangement at least facilitates communications with the Dominions, and, in the words of Premier Baldwin, "clear recognition of the profound difference between the work of communication and consultation with self-governing partner nations of the British Commonwealth and the administrative work...
Johnson Expedition. Besides the Amundsen rescue parties, the schooner Zodiac, 130-foot yacht of Johnson & Johnson (Robert W. and J. Steward), manufacturers of surgical supplies at New Brunswick, N. J., was soon to nose into the north with both Johnson brothers aboard. Their destination was to be Newfoundland, where they would search the ice-bitten shores for traces of the 40-ft. sloop Leif Ericsson which sailed out of Reykjavik, Iceland, last August under an amateut Norwegian skipper with a party of artists to "follow the trail of the Vikings" to Nova Scotia. Last winter, the U. S. cruiser Trenton...
...Even his liver, when pressed under heat, exudes oil of great medicinal worth. And his tongue is a Parisian delicacy. Cod?a big creature?is partial to olive-green covering and is distinguished by a subtle beard at the tip of the lower jaw. The cod catch on the Newfoundland coast has not been seriously diminished...
...winding up of the Association's affairs, it was reported that left-over literature had been shipped to help the cause in the Philippines, Porto Rico, Hawaii, South Africa, Newfoundland; also, that the following mementos had been deposited at the Smithsonian Institution...