Word: dominions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...result is that on this First Day of July, the sixty-eighth anniversary of the proclamation of a united Canada as a Dominion, we find on the record...
...pants off, thus leaving each still with one pair of pants, seemed the likely issue of their conjunction this week in Washington. Last week they had already started being "good neighbors." On the Rex the Australian Premier regretted and proposed to correct the oversight which makes Australia the only Dominion of the Big Four not represented in Washington by its own diplomatic mission. For his part President Roosevelt took note of the oversight which has made Australia hitherto a spot of exile for members of the U. S. foreign service. In Washington it was briskly announced that swank J. Pierrepont...
...upset by all this was Maclean's famed Saturday Evening Post of Canada, that its editorial on the Glorious First (Queen Victoria established the Dominion on July 1, 1867) was devoted not to the usual fanfare of Canadians pointing with pride to Canada but to a full page of viewing with alarm these and other Canadian troubles. Cried Maclean...
...circle of sixty-eight years since Confederation finds the General Government baulked again & again in its efforts toward desirable Dominion-wide legislation by the 'rights' of the provinces. Upon them has been bestowed so much self-rule that Professor Stephen Leacock has grounds for wondering whether America eventually will have a group of 'Balkans' to the North. . . . Last year, collectively, our ten governments and nearly 4,000 municipalities collected approximately $690,000,000 in taxes. Did they spend it all? Did they! All of it, and a combined deficit of something like...
...Dominion bankers denied a conspiracy, suavely hinting that underwriting of Ontario obligations was too risky a business. Nevertheless, Premier Hepburn promptly declared war. He spoke darkly of special, if not punitive, taxes on "surplus money," refused audiences to banking emissaries, threatened to withdraw all Provincial balances from commercial banks, announced plans for 30 new branches of the Government-owned savings bank system, upped the system's interest rate from 2% to 2½%, to tempt deposits away from private institutions...