Word: stately
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Issue. Australians have their own conception of what should be the Govern- ment's role in an industrial dispute. Most Englishmen, 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...
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...
...single vote made possible a debacle which throws before Australian voters an issue mixed and muddled as completely as possible by Parliament. The one clean-cut way out would be a sweeping victory for the chief Opposition party (Labor), but few observers believed that possible, last week, because recent state elections have heavily favored the Nationalists. Gloomily, Australians faced the post-election prospect of another Nationalist Government stalemated by the feud between Hughes and Bruce...
...That he was preparing to proclaim Italy an empire and would have bandy-legged little King Vittorio Emanuele crowned Emperor by His Holiness Pope Pius XI; 3) That he planned, perhaps most sensationally of all, to become like other Prime Ministers, to exercise only a general supervision over the State. Eagerly the Fascist hierarchy waited for a definitive statement from Il Duce. It came straight as a lightning stroke: "No one will make the unpardonable mistake of thinking my ministerial changes mean any change in the policy of my Government ! Never before have I felt so strongly all the living...
...Hudson power interest that has brought the Morgan Company most of its publicity as a utility factor. Mohawk-Hudson was organized jointly by United Gas Improvement and General Electric. It functions throughout northeastern New York, with Albany its southern centre. In June (TIME, June 24) two other New York state utilities merged with Mohawk-Hudson, extended the Mohawk-Hudson territory west to Buffalo and northeast along the St. Lawrence. The merged company was christened Niagara-Hudson. New York's Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt is said to be dubious concerning the legality of this merger, although his Republican attorney-general...