Word: welshmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Important as the success of the loan was for the whole Australian Commonwealth, New South Welshmen were more excited over the unsuccessful attempt of N. S. W. Premier J. T. Lang last week to appoint 60 of his Laborite friends to the State Legislative Council (Upper House...
...threatening to create enough new Liberal Peers to override Conservative opposition, he (Mr. Lang) would appoint enough new Councilors not only to guarantee passage of his laws but, worse, to pass a special law abolishing the council itself without a popular referendum. Final threat to horrify Conservative New South Welshmen, Premier Lang announced that the new Councilors would be 60 of his "women friends." Political opponents, defenders of the Legislative Council, rushed to the courts with demands for a permanent injunction...
...Dominions asked that the Mother Country accept the last half only of this scheme: the wall around the Empire. Within this high wall the Dominions wish to maintain their own low walls, protecting their "infant" manufacturing industries from the competition of Englishmen, Scotchmen, Welshmen. If Great Britain would be willing to make the Empire wall quite high, the Dominions said in effect, then they would be willing to make their little walls quite low. Point: by this arrangement the Mother Country would buy much more in the way of raw materials from her Dominions than at present (because Argentine...
With a Scottish peer and a confectioner to accompany him*, that wiliest of Welshmen, David Lloyd George, went to No. 10 Downing Street last week to talk Unemployment with Prime Minister MacDonald and his ministers. Britons soon had rumors aplenty to take their minds off the blistering "American heat...