A History of Australia: 'The old dead and the young tree green', 1916-1935Melbourne University Press, 1963 - Australia |
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... followed by cheers . Tears came to the eyes of Jimmy Scullin , the hurricane orator , the man who believed Labor's role was to ' satisfy human- ity's yearning for a fuller and better life ' . He told his colleagues that it was ' the ...
... followed by cheers . Tears came to the eyes of Jimmy Scullin , the hurricane orator , the man who believed Labor's role was to ' satisfy human- ity's yearning for a fuller and better life ' . He told his colleagues that it was ' the ...
Page 329
... followed one journalist down the main street of Rothbury and shouted at him to leave the town . When another newspaper man stopped he was surrounded and threatened with being kicked to death . He left . The mob then turned its wrath on ...
... followed one journalist down the main street of Rothbury and shouted at him to leave the town . When another newspaper man stopped he was surrounded and threatened with being kicked to death . He left . The mob then turned its wrath on ...
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... followed by an afternoon session for women : then came ' Chatterbox ' Corner for the kid- dies , dinner music , an evening programme of music , talk , racing , ' footy ' talk , news , weather ( what humanity would have to put up with in ...
... followed by an afternoon session for women : then came ' Chatterbox ' Corner for the kid- dies , dinner music , an evening programme of music , talk , racing , ' footy ' talk , news , weather ( what humanity would have to put up with in ...
Contents
VICTORY OF THE COMFORTABLE CLASSES | 47 |
A DIVIDED AUSTRALIA | 80 |
John Joseph Ambrose Curtin and Robert Gordon Menzies frontispiece | 116 |
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