Word: queensland
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tennis," twinkled the Commissioner-General. "But he has been responsible for himself for some time. I am really a businessman, you know." Thus modestly Big Brother Brookes alluded to the fact that he is profitably interested in Australian pulp and paper milling, makes a business of sheep raising in Queensland...
...Melbourne Alsatian Club and the Queensland Shepherd Dog Association fought a hard fight for their favorite animal.* The office of the Minister for Agriculture and Stock in Queensland, has been snowed under with petitions, photographs and affidavits in defense of the amiability of Alsatians. Most of all Mr. Smith's office was inundated with pictures of famed Cinema Dog Rin-Tin-Tin. But, famed though he is for docility and discretion, not even Rin-Tin-Tin could save his brothers and sisters in Dingoland...
...Mayo came to Harvard in 1926. He was formerly professor of Psychology at the University of Queensland, Australia...
...part of the financial fatherland, whereas Australia, with her vulnerable position in case of a great Pacific conflict, and her slightly rosy tint of political radicalism, is distinctly foreign. As a matter of history, Australia first came to Wall Street because London fell out with the legislators of Queensland* over a certain Land Amendment Act which taxed British pastoral investments despite agreements previously consummated which exempted the British security holders from Commonwealth levies. Although 1926 saw this dispute ironed out to London's satisfaction, the successful Queensland issue of 1922 at New York established a precedent. Now there...
...Capital of Queensland, founded in 1825 as a penal colony by Sir Thomas Makdougall Brisbane, Scottish soldier and astronomer who was then Governor of Australia...