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  Arthur Fadden - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sir Arthur William Fadden (April 13, 1894 – April 21, 1973), Australian politician and 13th Prime Minister of Australia, born at Ingham, Queensland, the son of a Presbyterian police officer.
In 1932 Fadden was elected for one term to the Queensland Legislative Assembly.
Fadden continued as Opposition Leader, and led the conservatives to a crushing defeat in the 1943 elections.
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 Prime Minister - Sir Arthur Fadden.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Arthur William Fadden was born on 13 April 1894, in Ingham in north Queensland.
Fadden was again returned at the federal election on 23 October 1937 and a member of the 15th parliament, opened on 30 November by Governor-General Lord Gowrie.
Fadden's second period as federal Treasurer 1949-58 was a period of rapid economic growth, expanding population, industrial development, rising levels of education, improved standards of living, low unemployment and the beginning of the 'long boom' of the immediate postwar decades.
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 Arthur Fadden   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Fadden became Prime Minister after Menzies resigned in 1941, but less than six weeks later, his government was defeated on the floor of the House of Representatives.
Sir Arthur William Fadden was Prime Minister from 29 August 1941 to 7 October 1941.
Arthur Fadden was born in Ingham, Queensland, on 13 April 1895.
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 Sir Arthur William Fadden
Fadden, as a Country Party member, supported Page and often referred to Menzies in the earthy language of the canefields.
Fadden then became Minister for Air and Civil Aviation and continued to serve under Menzies during the period when Labor was fast regaining strength, and the UAP-Country Party coalition was under constant attack from inside and outside.
Fadden, elected leader of the Country Party in March 1941, was Deputy Prime Minister when coalition in-fighting forced Menzies to throw in the sponge in August.
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 Encyclopedia: 1894   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The Honourable Sir Mackenzie Bowell, KCB, PC (December 27, 1824 – December 10, 1917) was the fifth Prime Minister of Canada from December 21, 1894 to April 27, 1896.
Rt Hon Arthur Fadden Sir Arthur William Fadden (April 13, 1894 – April 21, 1973), Australian politician and 13th Prime Minister of Australia, born at Ingham, Queensland, the son of a Presbyterian police officer.
Arthur Fiedler (December 17, 1894 – July 10, 1979) was the long-time conductor of the Boston Pops Orchestra, a symphony orchestra that specialized in popular music.
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 Australia's Prime Ministers - Meet a PM - Fadden - Inoffice
Arthur Fadden was Prime Minister of a coalition government for 40 days, from 29 August to 7 October 1941.
Fadden made a radio broadcast exhorting Australians to be united in the ‘supreme task of defeating the forces of evil in the world’.
Fadden advised the Governor-General Lord Gowrie that Labor leader John Curtin should be commissioned as Prime Minister and Curtin was sworn in on 7 October 1941.
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 Documents on Canadian External Relations (DCER)
Sir Arthur Fadden said for Australia that in all the circumstances there was no alternative but to mark time.
Australia, Sir Arthur Fadden declared, must reserve the right to impose import restrictions and was not prepared to agree to any rigid timetable or formula for the dismantling of restrictions or for removing discrimination.
Sterling area countries, Sir Frank Lee stressed, would not be able to write their own ticket and must be prepared to run some risks themselves in return for the commitments they would be seeking from other countries.
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 Arthur Fadden -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
In 1932 Fadden was elected for one term to the (A state in northeastern Australia) Queensland (Persons who make or amend or repeal laws) Legislative Assembly.
The (additional info and facts about United Australia Party) United Australia Party was so bereft of leadership by this time that Fadden was invited to become Prime Minister, although the Country Party was the smaller of the two (A person who has conservative ideas or opinions) conservative parties.
Although (A general and progressive increase in prices) inflation was very high in the early (The decade from 1950 to 1959) 1950s, forcing him to impose several "horror budgets," he generally presided over a booming economy, with times especially good for farmers.
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 Division of Fadden - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Division of Fadden is an Australian Electoral Division in Queensland.
The division was created in 1977 and is named for Sir Arthur Fadden, Prime Minister of Australia in 1941.
As its boundaries have changed Fadden has become an increasingly safe seat for the Liberal Party.
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 Australia's Prime Ministers - Meet a PM - Fadden - Before   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Arthur Fadden was an alderman in Townsville in 1930 and a member of the Queensland parliament from 1932 to 1935.
Fadden was Minister for Air and for Civil Aviation, then Treasurer, in the Menzies government in 1940—41.
In this family photograph, published in a 1968 newspaper serialisation of his memoirs, Arthur Fadden was a schoolboy (standing on the right, behind his mother and younger brother).
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In 1940, to resolve a deadlock between Sir Earle Page, John McEwen, and Archie Cameron, Fadden was elected acting leader of the Country Party.
Fadden was knighted in 1951 and retired from politics in 1958.
Fadden was acting prime minister on ten separate occasions covering a total period of 19 months.
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 Sir Arthur William Fadden --  Encyclopædia Britannica
Fadden was active in local and state government as a young man, and he was a member of Parliament (1936–58) and leader of the Country Party (1941–58).
The fictional character Sir Geraint is a knight of Arthurian legend.
Sir Isaac Newton law of gravity helped prove that the sun was the center of the universe.
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 Harold Holt   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
In this position he continued and expanded the massive immigration program begun by his Labor predecessor, Arthur Calwell.
In 1958, when Sir Arthur Fadden retired, Holt succeeded him as Treasurer (finance minister).
His career was nearly derailed in 1961 when his economic policies caused a recession which came close to losing the 1961 election for the Liberals.
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 Wikipedia: List of Australians
Sir Edmund Barton, (1849-1920), first Prime Minister of Australia
Sir William Lawrence Bragg - physicist, Nobel Prize winner
Sir John Eccles (born 1903) - Nobel prize physiologist
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 Australia's Prime Ministers - Meet a PM - Fadden
Arthur Fadden was Prime Minister from 29 August to 7 October 1941.
A Cabinet vote made the new Country Party leader, Arthur Fadden, the man sworn in as Prime Minister on 29 August 1941.
A Queenslander, Fadden was a member of the House of Representatives for 22 years, from 1936 to 1958, and leader of the Country Party for 17 years, from 1941 to 1958.
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 William Arthur   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Russell, Bertrand Arthur William, 3rd Earl Russell I. Introduction Russell, Bertrand Arthur William, 3rd Earl Russell (1872-1970), British philosopher, mathematician, and Nobel laureate, whose...
William Arthur Parks (1868-1939) was a Canadian paleontologist who described Arrhinoceratops (1925), Dyoplosaurus (1924), Lambeosaurus (1923), and Parasaurolophus (1923).
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 Australiani celebri: Tutte le informazioni su Australiani celebri su Encyclopedia.it   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Sir Edmund Barton (1849-1920), primo Primo Ministro d'Australia
Sir William Lawrence Bragg - fisico, Premio Nobel per la fisica
Sir John Eccles (1903-) - fisiologo Premio Nobel per la medicina
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 National Archives of Australia - Fact Sheet 79 - Sir Arthur William Fadden   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Having served a single term in the Queensland Legislative Assembly (1932–35), Arthur Fadden entered the House of Representatives as a member of the Country Party following a by-election for the seat of Darling Downs in 1936.
A backbencher during the Lyons government, Fadden entered the government of Robert Menzies as a junior Minister (Supply and Development, and later Air, and Civil Aviation).
Although Fadden did publish a volume of his memoirs (They call me Artie, Jacaranda Press, Brisbane) in 1969, no collection of his personal records is known to exist.
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 Queensland Courts - Valedictory Ceremony for the late Hon Jack Lawrence Kelly CBE RFD
Sir Harry Gibbs wishes me to record his apology for his inability to attend today, as does Justice Callinan of the High Court of Australia, and the Judges of the Family Court.
It is unsurprising to learn that as private secretary to Sir Arthur Fadden, Deputy Prime Minister and Treasurer, between 1950 and 1952, he quickly became very well regarded in the halls of Parliament House.
When I introduced my secretary, Jack Kelly, she looked him over and said, ‘Arthur, a man with a name like Kelly is very brave to come here.
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 The Parliament of Australia: A Bibliography: Prime_Ministers/Fadden   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
"Death of the Right Honourable Arthur Fadden." House of Representatives Debate 83, 1 May 1973: 1467-1472; Senate Debates 55, 1 May 1973: 1143-1147.
Fadden, Arthur W. "Forty Days and Forty Nights: Memoir of a Wartime Prime Minister." Australian Outlook 27(April 1973): 3-11.
Fadden, Arthur W. They Call Me Artie: The Memoirs of Sir Arthur Fadden.
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 Some Famous Australian Freemasons   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Sir Edmund Barton (Ist Australian Prime Minister) Born 1849 Died 1920, P/M from 1901 to 1903
Sir Arthur William Fadden.B 1895 D 1973..P/M 1941 (3Mnths)
Sir John Grey Gorton B (still alive) P/M 1968 to 1971
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 Arthur Fadden - TheBestLinks.com - Australian Labor Party, April 13, April 21, Earle Page, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
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Sir John A. MacDonald, Prime Minister of Canada 1867-1873 and 1878-1891
Sir Robert Gordon Menzies, Prime Minister of Australia 1939-1941 and 1949-1966
Sir Arthur William Fadden, Prime Minister of Australia 1941
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 Prime Minister - Joseph Benedict Chifley.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
To his amusement, he was nonetheless voted back to his former seat in parliament.
The new parliament was finely balanced and in May 1941 Menzies lost the prime ministership to Arthur Fadden.
Fadden was no more successful in holding a government together.
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 Gallery :: THE LOSS OF WIRRAWAY A20-212 :: 2
The accident at Maroochydore clearly destroyed the aircraft although ultimately the engine, a Pratt and Whitney Wasp, was considered to be only 50% damaged and therefore repairable.
It appears that, in 1950 23 Squadron based at RAAF Archerfield was engaged in shark spotting as a service to the community, the result of a request by no less than the Acting Prime Minister Arthur Fadden (later Sir Arthur Fadden).
There had been two shark attacks in the previous fortnight, one being fatal, and there was “concern for the safety of the populous”.
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 Sir Arthur William Currie --  Encyclopædia Britannica
In spite of this minimum of professional training, he was given command of a battalion in the first…
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Mac Fadden has always been primarily a Co. Donegal name, it has also a long standing connexion with Co.Cavan.
Charles MacFadin was one of the commissioners for Cavan charged with the administration of the Poll Tax Ordinance of 1660.
Sir Arthur Fadden, one of Australia's most colourful Prime Ministers, was the son of Richard John Fadden, born at Roundstone, Co. Galway.
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 Sir Robert Gordon Menzies --  Encyclopædia Britannica
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Most of his life was devoted to thinking about the theater of the future, and the inspiration behind much of the practice and theory in the theater today stems from his pioneering work.
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However, the National Party's Senate vote in the Gold Coast-based Federal divisions of McPherson and Moncrieff was 1.55% and 2.11% respectively.
In the nearby electorate of Fadden - named after former Country Party leader Sir Arthur "Artie" Fadden - the result was slightly better for the Nationals with 2.5% of the vote.
In Maranoa, which includes St George, the National Party Senate vote was almost 30%.
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37 Sir Arthur Fadden Parade, Ingham, Queensland 4850, Australia.
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