Word: zealander
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This was all very well, containing as it did the most magnificent understatement ever uttered by His Majesty, but the Empire broadcast also included greetings to King George from a dairy farmer in New Zealand, a lumberjack in the Canadian woods, an Army pensioner in London, a tea merchant on his Indian plantation, et al. Sandwiched in were what the announcer called "an eyewitness description of surf bathing at Bondi Beach" in Australia and "the voices of children romping in the botanical gardens at Melbourne...
...Beccali who led Lovelock to the tape for a new 1500-meter record of 3.49 shortly after the New Zealand runner had beaten Bonthron. The later lowered this record by two-tenths of a second during the past summer, and Beccali's goal will be to regain the record...
Jimmie Rodgers now had money. His records were played throughout the South, in New Zealand, South Africa, Australia, India. He could buy all the whiskey he wanted to forget his pain. He also bought a Buick, a Packard, a Cadillac, kept a chauffeur. He bought his father a home in Meridian, built himself a $50,000 house in Kerrville, Tex., where his wife and 13-year-old daughter now live. He wore loud neckties, occasionally a ten-gallon hat, tight-waisted coats. He did vaudeville turns throughout the land, met Will Rogers at a San Antonio unemployment benefit, stole...
William Y. Elliott, professor of Government, has been granted leave of absence for the first half of next year, according to an announcement made yesterday at University Hall. He will spend the time in visiting Canada, Newfoundland, the West Indies, and if possible, Australia and New Zealand, to gather material for a book on the British Commonwealth of Nations, which he is about to write. All his courses will be presented in the second half of the year. Carl J. Friedrich, associate professor of Government, will act as the head of the Government department during Elliott's absence...
...Japan it has as a subsidiary the Japan Steel Works, and thus allies itself with the Japanese armament and industrial firm of Mitsui. There are Vickers factories or subsidiary companies in Spain, Canada, Ireland, Holland (The Hague offers an appropriate site for some of the Vickers operations), and New Zealand...