Word: commonwealth
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Britain must organize as America has organized. We must mobilize our resources on an equal scale. An island nation cannot do this, but a world commonwealth can. Tariff barriers are being raised, not broken down...
...British Empire has a greater potential home consumption than the United States. She has larger territories and population, and greater natural resources. I hold therefore that the trades union movement must follow with the closest attention the proposals being made for the organization of the British Commonwealth as an economic unit...
...became "The City of Palaces." Last week engineers began to sink drills and explore the substrata of the Hoogly to a depth of 100 feet. Soon a subway will burrow under, connecting the quarters of Howrah and Sealdah. Proud Indians know that today only two cities in the British Commonwealth have subways: London and Sydney...
Ralph Austin Bard, partner in Bard & Co., President of C. I. C., was a three-letter man (Baseball, Basketball, Football) at Princeton (class of 1906). His club list includes Chicago, University, Attic, Industrial, Commonwealth, Exmoor, Monterey Peninsula Country (California), Mountain Lake (Florida). Other C. I. C. men include James B. Forgan Jr., of the famed Scotch banking family, vice president of Chicago's First National; Alfred Ernest Hamill, of Hathaway & Co. (commercial paper), also of Scotch-Irish banking ancestry; William H. Mitchell of Mitchell, Hutchins & Co. (brokers) ; Dudley Gates, vice president of Marsh & McLennan, Inc. (insurance) ; Henry L. Hanley, executive...
What are three things now most vividly associated in the public mind with the Commonwealth of Kentucky...