Word: dominions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that politically everything was all right, and found that his dog was dead. Meanwhile raging Indian editors from Calcutta to Bombay were tearing out the whole front page, setting up in their biggest, blackest, angriest type such screamers as: EARL RUSSELL VOIDS THE VICEROY'S PLEDGE! REFUSES INDIA DOMINION STATUS!! OUR REPRISALS JUSTIFIED !!! In hundreds of irate editorials the Earl-Under-Secretary was quoted as saying: "It will not be possible to grant Dominion Status to India for a long time to come...
...Witty and sagacious Timothy Michael Healy, first Governor of the Irish Free State, aptly said: "It is not Irish. It is not free. And it is not a state." It is in effect a dominion of the British Commonwealth of Nations, similar to Canada...
...caused the grave and startling news from India to be received with curious apathy. Evidently carnivorous Church of Englanders still view the menaces of vegetarian Hindus with the customary contempt. The Daily Herald, party organ of Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald, recalled that during 1929 the Indian Nationalists demanded "dominion status," and complacently alluded to the 1930 demand for Pur an Swaraj (Complete Independence) as "an academic change involving no immediate consequences." In Manhattan, Chairman Sailendranath Ghose of the Indian Nationalist Association of America talked boldly of arming a million Indians for revolution but had no theory...
Year ago the Nationalists met in Calcutta?their "Congress" being in fact a party caucus?and resolved this ultimatum: If the British Parliament does not grant India dominion status with a legal Indian Parliament before Dec. 31, 1929, then the Indian National Congress will proclaim civil resistance to the British raj (rule...
...Canada there are only ten banks, each with many branches. For a long period the quickest growing of these was the Royal Bank, which by 1927 held 26.09% of Canada's banking resources. Last week the Royal Bank became the Dominion's first billion-dollar bank, when it reported that total assets for the year ended Nov. 30 were $1,001,442,741-a gain of about $92,000,000 during the year...