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Cyril Pearl, Judah Waten. R. G. Menzies , 1935 A typical country election meeting Waterside workers who refused to load pig iron for Japan at Port Kembla demonstrated against Mr Menzies when he arrived in Wollongong for a conference with ...
Cyril Pearl, Judah Waten. R. G. Menzies , 1935 A typical country election meeting Waterside workers who refused to load pig iron for Japan at Port Kembla demonstrated against Mr Menzies when he arrived in Wollongong for a conference with ...
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... R. G. Menzies was sent to Wollongong to end the dispute . It was there that Menzies earned the soubriquet of ' Pig Iron Bob ' which remained with him for the rest of his long political career . He threatened to use the licensing system ...
... R. G. Menzies was sent to Wollongong to end the dispute . It was there that Menzies earned the soubriquet of ' Pig Iron Bob ' which remained with him for the rest of his long political career . He threatened to use the licensing system ...
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... Menzies . ciate has recorded that during crisis The son of a police sergeant from County periods of the war he would ... R. G. Menzies was to say of him , ' He did not look like a great man , but he undoubtedly became one . ' Another ...
... Menzies . ciate has recorded that during crisis The son of a police sergeant from County periods of the war he would ... R. G. Menzies was to say of him , ' He did not look like a great man , but he undoubtedly became one . ' Another ...
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