Word: dominions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Newfoundlanders have called themselves a "Dominion" so often that the habit of thinking of them as such has spread throughout the Empire and the World. In law, however, Newfoundland is still a colony, even though a self-governing one. Taking full advantage of this fact the Amulree Report proposed that Newfoundland's Government revert under the Crown to His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom, which took over in an emergency last month the Government of Malta (TIME...
Although it is difficult to see how a staged rally such as this can have any serious results either in inspiring a football team which will be four miles away in Belmont at the time, or in permanently demoralizing the dominion of indifference, it is disappointing that Harvard should succumb under pressure to the revival of a custom it had wisely disposed of. The attitude of undergraduates ion the last few years towards football cannot scathingly be termed indifferent; it has simply been a sane attitude which marked Harvard as being years ahead of other colleges in this respect...
...stocks of defunct jewelry firms still hang unsold over the market and even the desire for possession of tangible goods as a hedge against Inflation has not led to any appreciable buying of jewels-possibly due partly to fear that if the South African diamond syndicate operating under that dominion's Precious Stones Act of 1927 ever let go its artificial limitation of supply, owners of diamonds might be left high & dry. But although Americans are not hoarding precious stones, and cannot hoard the No. 1 precious metal, gold, there has been a large demand...
...vice president who does things is Julio A. Roca of Argentina. He went to London nine months ago to negotiate a special trade agreement necessitated by the Ottawa Conference's preference of Dominion meat for British markets, and to discuss foreign exchange. British firms have great sums frozen in Argentine banks through foreign exchange regulations. Before he left England, Vice President Roca sat down with President Walter Runciman of the British Board of Trade and initialed a treaty including an agreement whereby British firms anxious to get their money out of Argentina may buy with their blocked pesos...
...More credible was this straight political reasoning: Postmaster General James Aloysius Farley, national and State chairman of the Democracy, was out with his Bronx ally, New York's Secretary of State Edward Joseph Flynn, to crush Tammany and bring New York City into President Roosevelt's political dominion through Mr. Flynn's longtime protege McKee. Mr. McKee's hesitancy before he finally decided to run was attributed by his friends to his ill-health, a revelation which his age (44) and general appearance of pepticity made hard to believe. The McKee record is an extraordinary...