serving from 1923 to 1929. He was a barrister and businessman before
being wounded in the Gallipoli Campaign of World War I. Elected to
parliament in 1918 as a member of the Nationalist Party, he served as
treasurer in the government of Billy Hughes before replacing him as
prime minister in 1923. Bruce overhauled federal government
administration and oversaw its transfer to the new capital, Canberra.
His "men, money and markets" scheme was an ambitious attempt to rapidly
expand Australia's population and economic potential through massive
government investment and closer ties with Great Britain and the rest of
the British Empire. But his heavy-handed response to industrial unrest
and attempts to overhaul labour laws led to a landslide defeat in 1929.
After politics, Bruce became involved with the League of Nations until
the outbreak of World War II. After the war, he was a leading advocate
of development aid, a founder of the Food and Agriculture Organization,
the first chancellor of the Australian National University and the first
Australian to sit in the House of Lords (as Viscount Bruce of
Melbourne).
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Bruce>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1513:
War of the League of Cambrai: A Venetian army under Bartolomeo
d'Alviano was decisively defeated by the Spanish army commanded by
Ramón de Cardona and Fernando d'Avalos.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_La_Motta_(1513)>
1763:
Following Great Britain's acquisition of New France after the
end of the Seven Years' War, King George III issued a Royal
Proclamation closing most of this land to the residents of the Thirteen
Colonies.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Proclamation_of_1763>
1933:
Five French airline companies merged to form Air France.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_France>
1976:
Hua Guofeng succeeded Mao Zedong as Chairman of the Communist
Party of China.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hua_Guofeng>
1993:
The Great Mississippi and Missouri Rivers Flood came to an end
after 103 days, as the Mississippi River at St. Louis finally dropped
below flood stage.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Flood_of_1993>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
croggy:
A ride on the handlebars or crossbar of a bicycle.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/croggy>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
The Letheri are masters at corrupting words, their meanings. They
call war peace, they call tyranny liberty. On which side of the shadow
you stand decides a word's meaning. Words are the weapons used by those
who see others with contempt. A contempt which only deepens when they
see how those others are deceived and made into fools because they
choose to believe. Because in their naivety they thought the meaning of
a word was fixed, immune to abuse.
--Steven Erikson
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Steven_Erikson>
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