Word: tasmania
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hackett & Alexanders brought out by Spalding in 1912 and named for the famed U. S. doubles team of Harold Hackett & Fred Alexander. Shaped the same way, it is neither a relic nor a copy but a standard product of Alexander Racquet Co. of Launceton, Tasmania. Flat-topped racquets remained popular in Australia long after they had gone out of fashion elsewhere, partly because famed Norman Brookes, who became head of the Australian Lawn Tennis Association after he retired from active tournament competition, continued to prefer them. Australia's Adrian Quist and Donald Turnbull used the same kind. Unlike...
Strictly practical Australian politicians like Commonwealth Premier Joseph Lyons, "The Man from Tasmania," realized that they must make some effective answer to Dean Johnson's charge that His Majesty's subjects "cannot colonize" the Northern Territory and should therefore let Japanese at least try. Mr. Lyons revealed a secret. His Government, he declared, has about completed negotiations with two groups of British financiers ready to invest between them ?200,000,000 ($972,000,000 at par) in developing roughly half a million square miles of northern Australia...
...spatted Resident Minister in London. Stanley Melbourne Bruce, badgered his Government by cable at 40? per word to join the others in some sort of wheat acreage reduction pact (TIME, July 3). Last week, after a conference of Australia's State Premiers. Dominion Premier Lyons ("The Man from Tasmania") had good news for Mr. Bruce. Next day the "Big Four" announced themselves agreed on "a policy of temporary adjustment of production ... to world demand, with a view to improving the price of wheat and liquidating the surplus stacks now overhanging the market...
PAGEANT-G. B. Lancaster-Century ($2.50). 19th Century family life in Tasmania. Literary Guild choice for February...
...proposed to borrow $2 per capita of Australia's population to make jobs. Instead the plan was unfolded at Melbourne to a Commonwealth Conference of State Premiers by Australia's new Roman Catholic and comparatively conservative Federal Premier, Joseph Aloysius Lyons, father of nine, famed "Man from Tasmania...