Word: dominions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hepburn tried to curry favor with Catholics by promising money from Ontario's educational funds to aid their parochial schools. Since 41% of all Canadians are Catholics, this was considered a smart opening move by Ontario's Liberal "Mitch"' in his game to oust and succeed Dominion Liberal Leader William Lyon Mackenzie King...
...retrace your steps and cross over into the Old Dominion, you will immediately note the squalor and poor-ness of the land. And, if you are a "nice, bright young man," you will realize what slavery meant to the South, and what the North's victory meant. You are astounded to find yourself sympathizing with the South, and thinking of Karl Marx's phrase, "the expropriation of the expropriators...
...surplus energies. The proper business for a king was, of course, the development of an overseas empire. It mattered little to Leopold that the world had been pretty well partitioned by 1850; it mattered little that Belgium, a buffer state, was in no position to carve out a dominion in Africa. Leopold worked well in twilight zones; he knew how to make weakness into strength when he had strong neighbors who were jealous of each other. In the end he possessed himself of the Congo because Bismarck did not want France to get it and because Britain thought Belgium would...
...coat with fair dexterity and vast vigor, opined that "Depression cooked Bennett's goose and he can't uncook it now." On the other hand Canada has been on the upgrade for at least a year. Exports are up 25%, from 1933, and by next August the Dominion may be sufficiently at ease to reflect that in the Empire there are few Premiers on tap today better than hard pressed Richard Bedford Bennett...
...engineering (he has given $750,000 to the Engineering Foundation), white-bearded, bright-eyed Engineer Swasey has been manufacturing topnotch astronomical equipment since 1880. His firm, Warner & Swasey Co. of Cleveland, made the 36-inch Lick Telescope, the Naval Observatory's 26-incher, Canada's Dominion Astronomical Observatory's 72-incher, Argentine National Observatory's 60-incher, the mounting and housing for the 80-incher which will be the world's second largest when it is installed in McDonald Observatory in southwestern Texas...