Word: australian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...youngest Prime Minister of a British Dominion, and the only one who keeps an airplane in the cellar of his house, is Australia's brisk, zestful Stanley Melbourne Bruce, 46. Last week he fought and lost on the most vital issue in Australian policies. One vote cost him defeat- the vote of a rich, debonair yachtsman who raced in Sir Thomas Lipton's defeated Shamrock...
...sponsored by Mr. Bruce, he caused the defeat of the Government. The Prime Minister was obliged to ask dissolution of the Dominion Parliament, thus necessitating a general election. Swan Song. Flushed and angry was the mien of Prime Minister Bruce as he stood up before Parliament in the new Australian Capital of Canberra to announce that the election will be held Oct. 12. He had been in power for six years. Now from the Opposition benches rose shouts of "This is your swan song, Bruce!" Perhaps it was. But if he loses the Prime Ministry after the election Mr. Bruce...
...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...
Muddle & Stalemate. Though superficially plausible the Hughes stand won over no Nationalist M. P. except Yachtsman Marks. Only the fact that the Government was balanced on a 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...
...Woking, Surrey, England, Widow F. E. Stevens, 84, was trundled into St. John's Church in a wheelchair, married to one Cyril Mills, 23, son of an Australian bicyclist...