Word: commonwealth
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Canberra last week the Commonwealth Government passed a law definitely prohibiting the importation of Alsatian Shepherd dogs ("German police dogs") into Australia. Bluntly, the legislature recommended extermination of the breed in Australia...
...York City, Empire Day was celebrated at the Hotel Plaza. Sir Esme Howard, British Ambassador to the U. S., addressed the members of the newly formed British Commonwealth Club. His speech was chiefly explanatory. He said...
...York, May 14--The announcement of the fifth annual Commonwealth Fund Scholarship awards made in London today, shows that four undergraduates of British universities are to come to Harvard next year to study in the various graduate schools...
...scholarships, established in 1925 by the Commonwealth Fund of New York, of which Edward S. Harkness is president, are similar to the Rhodes Scholarships and were inaugurated in order to give British students an opportunity to study in America and to foster good will between the United States and Great Britain...
...American Legian prepared to call the roll, Boston dowagers girded their armor to fall in line, daring debutantes atremble with excitement equipped themselves with stamps and awaited the word to blot from the invidious Artkino program the names of those who led the rest. Swelling the ranks, officers of commonwealth and of nation prepared to rush from points afar to insure the adequacy of the patriotic boycott on the one little Sovkino film and the one little theatre. Racing to the Hub of the revolutionary district, cabinet officials turned over in their minds ambitious plans to strengthen the tottering morale...