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...upheld by the Australian High Court last week. Thus clothed with supreme authority, Premier Lyons promptly made proclamation to the citizens of New South Wales, ordered them to pay income taxes into his Federal Treasury and not into the State Treasury of their own defiant State Pcemier John Thomas Lang...
...hurl such a proclamation at high-spirited New South Welshmen was risky. "But surely every step must be taken!" cried Premier Lyons' wealthy Cabinet colleague Stanley Melbourne Bruce. "Surely everything possible must be done to check this man [Premier Lang] who is a menace to Australia in his mad career...
...Almost the only encouragement President de Valera received last week came from that most obstreperous State in all the Empire, the State of New South Wales in the Dominion of Australia, the "repudiating" State of Labor Premier John Thomas Lang (TIME, April 6, 1931). In Sydney irrepressible Laborites assembled, adopted and sent to Mr. de Valera a most welcome resolution...
...Author. Since Scarlet Sister Mary received the 1928 Pulitzer Prize, Authoress Julia Mood Peterkin has lived much the same local life as before with her cotton- planting husband on Lang Syne Plantation, Fort Motte, S. C. Once a winter she goes to New York, "to pleasure herself," not to be lionessed. At home the local colored folk know that "Miss Julia" has put them in books, do not much care. Negro intelligentsiacs agree with the whites ? that Authoress Peterkin writes accurately, vividly of the Gullah Negroes. Equally vivid, Bright Skin gives a broader picture of Gullah life than Scarlet...
...severed ribbon was tied together. Premier Lang cut it with his shiny scissors. On behalf of His Majesty George V, "of Australia King," Sir Philip Game read a message...