Word: bessborough
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Excellency the Earl of Bessborough, Governor General of Canada was in bed last week with a severe chill. But Canada was as hot as the Earl was cool. From Quebec to British Columbia angry little groups talked of his behavior while newspapers demanded a public apology...
Fortnight ago on Empire Day the city of Toronto celebrated its 100th anniversary with parades, speeches and banquets. As Governor General, Lord Bessborough had accepted an invitation, but, more important to native sons. Toronto's best known daughter, Mary Pickford, had come home for the centenary, stealing all the applause...
...bellowed Lord Bessborough. "Where is your Mary Pickford? Get on with your Mary Pickford show! Whers is the parade? Get on with the parade! And I want to know, my man, what you will say if I report to the King that I have not been properly received in Toronto...
Canada's Governor General Vere Brabazon Ponsonby, ninth Earl of Bessborough, in England on leave, tried to catch a drunken monkey on his Hampshire estate by swooping on it in an airplane, dropping a net. The monkey, which had taken to the Earl's whiskey, escaped in the underbrush...
...International Peace Garden in the Turtle Mountains of North Dakota and Manitoba. The Peace Garden is at the centre of the U. S.-Canada border, 32 mi. northeast of Bottineau, N. Dak. Half of it is in the U. S., half in Canada. President Hoover and Governor General Lord Bessborough sent greetings. Some 50,000 people raised their hands, solemnly swore: "To God in His Glory, we two nations dedicate this garden, and pledge ourselves that as long as men shall live we will not take up arms against one another, so help...