SYDNEY, Thursday.—All scientific workers were Utopians, declared Mr. H. G. Wells in a national broadcast to-night. That is why ...
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Article : 363 wordsThe national executive of the British Labour party has passed a resolution directing attention to the continued violation of the ...
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Article : 261 wordsADELAIDE, Thursday.—The bodies of the four men who were killed when the Guinea Airways' plane Koranga crashed at Katherine yesterday were brought to ...
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Article : 345 wordsPresident Roosevelt has approved of a bill providing for the establishment of a chain of air, submarine, and destroyer bases in ...
Article : 209 wordsWith the co-operation of the British Council, the Old Vic Theatre company left London to-day for a three months' tour. ...
Article : 137 wordsThe Public Service Commissioner ha[?] disallowed all except the following appeal[?] by State school teachers against th[?] nominations to vacancies announced on[?] ...
Article : 69 wordsAn examination of persons who desire[?] to obtain a certificate of competency to[?] qualify them to hold the office of town[?] clerk or shire secretary in Victoria will[?] ...
Article : 92 wordsThere were no developments yesterday in the police inquiry into the murder of Leslie McAllister, aged 38 years, butcher, of Monbulk, who was shot in his ...
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Article : 107 wordsDARWIN, Thursday.—With the falling of the flood waters last night practically the whole of the Koranga was visible, and it was found that very little of it can be ...
Article : 232 wordsThe spokesman for the Navy Office said to-day that Japan was greatly concerned about the proposal to fortify Guam Island, which is close to mandated islands that ...
Article : 65 wordsM. Blum, the former Socialist Prime Minister, last night addressed a huge meeting organised by the Socialist party, at which the reopening of the Pyrenees ...
Article : 168 wordsNorth-Eastern Airways has asked the Air Ministry to subsidise a proposed service between London and Edinburgh with American Beechcraft planes. ...
Article : 117 wordsDetectives from the Criminal Investigation Department boarded the Rangitata when she berthed at London to-day to investigate the theft of £1,300 in ...
Article : 113 wordsLack of capital and population is delaying the plan to form an Empire Development Society to develop and settle parts of the Empire. Sir Henry Page Croft, ...
Article : 78 wordsIncoming English airmail on the Koranga included 11 bags for Melbourne which will arrive here by train this morning for delivery this afternoon. That ...
Article : 53 wordsA special correspondent of "The Argus," at St. Jean de Luz, questioned seven military experts of different nationalities four of whom expressed the opinion that ...
Article : 367 wordsTwenty-one boys—the first party to leave under the auspices of the Big Brother Movement since 1930—will leave for Sydney in the Strathallan to-morrow. ...
Article : 56 wordsThe 35 schoolboys from Victoria have gone to the North-west Frontier, having ended their visit to Delhi. They stopped at Lahore and inspected ...
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Article : 170 wordsThe Czech Foreign Minister (M. Chvalkovsky) will visit Berlin on Saturday and confer with the German Foreign Minister (Herr ron Ribbentrop). ...
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Article : 45 wordsMrs. Bella Futterman, aged 55 years, was brought back to life yesterday four minutes after she had apparently died from an attack of asthma. ...
Article : 121 wordsOne of the larger schoolrooms from the Methodist Ladies' College, Kew, where extensive alterations are being carried out, was removed to the Box Hill Grammar School yesterday. It was carried on trailers in two sections. One section is shown in Belmore road, Balwyn. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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Article : 29 wordsThe name of the freighter Port Montreal, which berthed yesterday at Victoria Dock from Canada, might well be changed to British Empire because ...
Article : 281 wordsTwelve thousand troops left Valencia by steamer to-day to assist the Republicans in resisting the offensive, and 60,000 will be sent from Madrid. ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Fri 20 Jan 1939, Page 11
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