Word: australians
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Irate Australian Laborites made passionate stump speeches, last week, about what they called "a scandalous sacrifice of valuable public property...
Contented Australian Nationalists took the opposite view and praised their smart Prime Minister, sleek Stanley Melbourne Bruce, who is so modern that he has a private airplane garage in his basement and frequently flies forth...
...when they were bought some five years ago by the Commonwealth. The Prime Minister's defense was that the ships have been operated by the Commonwealth at a consistent loss of some ?600,000 per year. In his opinion that loss should be stopped. But the Laborites want Australian jobs on Australian ships for Australians. Therefore in Sydney, last week, labor union leaders threatened ominously to "blacklist and boycott" the Seven Great Ships-five of which are liners of 13,000 tons, and the other two cargo ships of 9,500 tons...
...Capt. Wilkins-Australian adventurer, photographer in the Balkan War, cameraman for Stefansson in his North...
Three invading teams each year will visit the United States, two groups from England which will be chosen in rotation from the Oxford, Cambridge and National Union of Students teams, and the third for 1928, will be an Australian team. Arrangements have been made for the reception of a Canadian team in 1929, and English speaking debaters from Germany. Holland, and South Africa have been negotiating for speaking tours among the American colleges...