Word: bessboroughs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Whipped by a 40 m. p. h. gale, an Ottawa blizzard lashed the state carriage of Canada's unpopular Governor General last week, as His Excellency Vere Brabazon Ponsonby, 9th Earl of Bessborough, rode out to open Parliament for the last time in his five year vice-Regal term. The next Governor General may just possibly be His Majesty's youngest son the Duke of Kent. Last week Lord Bessborough further miffed Canadians by insisting that his youngest son, aged 3, should see papa open Canada's Senate and House of Commons. As usual the vice-Regal...
...native governor general could be reprimanded, castigated or scolded-did events seem to call for it-with no sense of impropriety or bad manners. He might even register as much impatience as Lord Bessborough did, without a national crisis being the result. . . . Lord Bessborough may well have made history both for himself and Canada by his little flare-up at Toronto...
After the parade Lord Bessborough refused to sign the distinguished visitors' book at Toronto's Old Fort, departed in a huff...
With few exceptions the Canadian Press attacked Lord Bessborough last week. They pointed- out that to earn his keep a governor general has only to attend the functions to which he is invited and keep his temper. Only critic of Lord Bessborough to surfer was a radio announcer known as Uncle Al, who launched into an impassioned defense of Mary Pickford on the Gooderham & Worts whiskey hour...
Uncle Al was suspended and Lord Bessborough caught his chill...