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  Station Information - Earle Page
Earle Christmas Grafton Page (August 8 1880 - December 20 1961), Australian politician, was the eleventh Prime Minister of Australia.
In 1919 Page was elected to the House of Representatives as a candidate of the Farmers and Settlers Association of New South Wales, which in 1920 became the Country Party.
Page refused to consider retirement from Parliament, even at the 1961 election, when he was 81, suffering from lung cancer and too sick to campaign.
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 Earle Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Page then became Treasurer (finance minister) in the Bruce (Australian physician and bacteriologist who described the bacterium that causes undulant fever or brucellosis (1855-1931)) government, a position he held until 1929.
Page had been very close to Lyons, and he disliked Robert Menzies (additional info and facts about Robert Menzies), Lyons's deputy, on the grounds that Menzies had been disloyal to Lyons.
Page refused to consider retirement from Parliament, even at the 1961 election, when he was 81, suffering from lung cancer (Carcinoma of the lungs; one of the commonest forms of cancer) and too sick to campaign.
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 Earle Page
Earle Christmas Grafton Page (August 8, 1880 - December 20, 1961) was the Prime Minister of Australia from the 7th to the 26th of April 1939.
Born in Grafton, New South Wales, Australia, he first entered Parliament in 1919 as member for the electoral seat of Cowper with the Farmers and Settlers' Association, but he was a founding member of the Australian Country Party in 1920, and stayed with the Country Party for the remainder of his long parliamentary career.
By the time of the 1961 election, Page was 81 and suffering from lung cancer and in fact was too sick to campaign for re-election - he had ignored advice from many of his constituents to retire.
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 The Richard III and Yorkist History Server
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Earle's father was an air-traffic controller and the family was raised in Schertz, near San Antonio, Texas.
Earle married at the age of 19 but when his wife went with her parents to Mexico, he moved to Nashville, playing for tips and deciding to stay.
Earle saw in the 1988 New Year in a Dallas jail for punching a policeman and during that year, he married his fifth wife and released an album with a hard rock feel, Copperhead Road, which included the Vietnam saga "Johnny Come Lately", which he recorded with the Pogues.
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 Earle Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
In 1919 Page was elected to the House of Representatives as a candidate of the Farmersand Settlers Association of New South Wales, which in 1920 became the Country Party.
Page had been very close to Lyons, and he disliked Robert Menzies,Lyons's deputy, on the grounds that Menzies had been disloyal to Lyons.
Page refused to consider retirement from Parliament, even at the 1961 election, when hewas 81, suffering from lung cancer and too sick to campaign.
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 Page - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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 Earle Page - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Born in Grafton, New South Wales, he was educated at state schools and the University of Sydney, where he graduated in medicine at the top of his year in 1901.
In 1919 Page was elected to the Australian House of Representatives as MP for Cowper as a candidate of the Farmers and Settlers Association of New South Wales, which in 1920 became the Country Party.
His grandson Don Page is currently a National MP in the NSW Parliament.
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 Prime Minister - Sir Earle Grafton Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Earle Christmas Grafton Page was born on 8 August 1880 in Grafton, on the Clarence River in northern New South Wales.
Earle Page formed a coalition government with Bruce, negotiating a generous deal for the new party: the deputy prime ministership, five Cabinet positions, and a joint ticket in campaigning for Senate elections.
Page was deputy Prime Minister and when Lyons died in 1939 was sworn in as caretaker prime minister.
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 Earle Page - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sir Earle Christmas Grafton Page (August 8, 1880 – December 20, 1961), Australian politician, was the eleventh Prime Minister of Australia.
Earle Page - Australia's Prime Ministers / National Archives of Australia
This page was last modified 12:25, 5 January 2006.
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 Foreign Minister: The Earle Page College's Annual Politics Dinner
Page understood that a free press, freedom of association and political liberty are interdependent, along with all the other liberties that are part of the British heritage.
Page saw the League as "the creation of the English-speaking peoples" and the Covenant as the great hope of an end to "the era of isolationist policies and secret diplomacy" which might "bring enduring peace and understanding to war-shattered Europe by free discussion".
Page's unselfish response was in marked contrast to John Curtin's and the Labor Party's.
www.foreignminister.gov.au /speeches/2005/050517_earle_page_college.html   (2777 words)

  
 Earle Page
Earle Christmas Grafton Page was born in Grafton, New South Wales on 8 August 1880, and died - also in Grafton - on 20 December 1961.
Page's refusal to serve with the new UAP leader, Menzies, resulted in the departure of the CP from the coalition and of Page from the CP leadership.
Page was the Minister for Health in the Menzies-Fadden Liberal-CP coalition from 1949 until 1956, and as such was the architect of the government's post-war health policy.
www.nma.gov.au /schools/school_resources/resource_websites_and_interactives/primeministers/earle_page   (1319 words)

  
 Page-Faulkner and Bonar-McLeod
Evelyn Beatrice PAGE was born on Dec 16, 1900 in Moosomin, NWT.
The Page farm was NW 10-12-31 and was known by the Church of England as Page's Settlement.
Lance Earle PAGE was born on Jun 27, 1988.
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 Encyclopedia: Earle Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Lord Gowrie Alexander Gore Arkwright Hore-Ruthven, 1st Earl of Gowrie VC, KBE, PC (6 July 1872 - 2 May 1955), tenth Governor-General of Australia, was born in Windsor, Berkshire, England, the second son of the 8th Baron Ruthven.
Sir Robert Gordon Menzies (20 December 1894 – 14 May 1978), Australian politician, was the twelfth and longest-serving Prime Minister of Australia, serving a total of eighteen and a half years in office from 1939 to 1941 and from 1949 to 1966.
The Page Ministry was the twenty-fifth Australian Commonwealth ministry, and ran from 7th April 1939 to 26th April 1939.
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 Print Article: Turn of a new Page possible for Sir Earle's old party   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Earle Christmas Grafton Page was born in Grafton in 1880, one of 11 children of a coach builder.
Sir Earle dreamed of a Clarence Valley that was home to millions of people, powered and watered by damming the river.
Mrs Page, originally from Sydney, became Sir Earle's secretary because her shorthand was quick enough to take down his torrent of ideas.
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 Sylvia Earle: Explorer - EnchantedLearning.com
Earle has done pioneering work in studying ocean life, and she has helped develop the equipment necessary for underwater exploration.
In 1970, Earle led a team of five aquanauts (underwater explorers) who lived for 2 weeks (during which they experienced an underwater earthquake) in an underwater laboratory in a U.S. government project named "Tektite II." She has discovered many underwater phemonena, including undersea dunes in the Atlantic Ocean off the Bahama Islands.
Positions Held: Earle was the chief scientist for the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) from 1990 to 1991 - she was the first woman to hold this position.
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 Sir Earle Christmas Grafton Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Earle Page holds the record for the second-shortest period as Prime Minister, but he regarded himself only as a caretaker and was not the type of man to have delusions of glory.
Page retained his seat, but had only minor influence until he allied his party with the United Australia Party in 1934 and became Deputy Prime Minister under Joseph Lyons.
Earle Page married Ethel Blunt in 1906 (died 1958) and Jean Thomas in 1960.
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 Naval Weapons Station Earle
The Earle Naval Weapons Station, Earle/Leonardo Pier complex, is located along the northern New Jersey shore in the south end of Sandy Hook Bay.
Earle provides logistical, technical and material support to the fleet in a variety of areas ranging from combat subsystems and retail ammunition management to ordnance packaging, handling and storage.
Earle is in many ways like a small town, with homes, office buildings, factories, restaurants, cars and trucks.
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 National Archives of Australia - The Collection - Prime Ministers - Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Page was the leader of the Country Party from 1921 to 1939.
Page was a surgeon with a medical practice serving a large rural district.
Earle Page was a federal parliamentarian for 22 years after his term as Prime Minister.
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 Page, Right Honourable Sir Earle, Australia and the Empire
Chairman, Sir Earle Page, Gentlemen: It is a very happy honour that comes to me today to extend a welcome on behalf of the Government of Ontario to Sir Earle Page and I am privileged to extend to you, Sir, a hearty, a very hearty welcome to the Province of Ontario.
I believe at a quarter past one, precisely, Sir Earle Page must talk on the broadcasting system, and however wonderful and Shakespearian my language may be it is cut off in turn by what you term the programme or the schedule.
CHAIRMAN MARSHALL: Sir Earle Page, on behalf of the following organizations, which contributed to this luncheon, I wish to thank you: The Board of Trade of the City of Toronto, the Canadian Manufacturers' Association, the Canadian Club, the Empire Club of Canada, the Kiwanis Club and the Rotary Club.
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 Prime Minister Of Australia
* Earle Page was born on the 8th of August 1880 in Grafton, NSW.
* Earle Page was New South Wales parliamentarian and held the seat of Cowper from 1920 to 1961.
1880 - Earle Page was born in Grafton, NSW.
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 Eyvind Earle - Main Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
In 1996 Earle wrote, "For 70 years I've painted paintings, and I'm constantly and everlastingly overwhelmed at the stupendous infinity of creation...Art is the search for truth." We have all been touched and blessed by his quest.
Earle's work at Disney as a background painter for such animated films as "Sleeping Beauty" is but one aspect of his vast repertoire.
Earle's work hangs in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
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 Sir Earle Page --  Encyclopædia Britannica
U.S. painter William Page is known for his sedate portraits of prominent Americans and Britons of the mid-19th century.
U.S. actress Geraldine Page was most famous for her portrayal of Tennessee Williams' heroines—roles she played on both stage and screen.
During the 1930s, Page invented the technology for pulse radar, a system that detects and locates distant objects by sending out short bursts of electromagnetic radiation and then receiving and displaying the echoes that return from the objects.
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 Australia's Prime Ministers - Meet a PM - Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Earle Christmas Grafton Page was Prime Minister for only 20 days, from 7 April 1939 to 26 April 1939.
Page was also deputy Prime Minister to SM Bruce in 1923—29, and to Joseph Lyons in 1934—39.
A founder of the Country Party, Page led the party in parliament from 1921 to 1939.
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 National Archives of Australia - Fact Sheet 77 - Earle Grafton Christmas Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Page successfully contested the seat of Cowper in the 1919 federal election as a representative of the Farmers and Settlers' Association.
Page became Deputy Prime Minister to Bruce, and Treasurer in the Bruce–Page government of 1923 to 1929.
Page served as Minister for Commerce (1940–41) and Minister for Health (1949–56) in the postwar Menzies government.
www.aa.gov.au /publications/fact_sheets/FS77.html   (760 words)

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