Word: bessboroughs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...carillon in Ottawa's Peace Tower, Carilloneur Robert J. Donnell played in succession all the local airs of the Empire countries, burst into "Pomp & Circumstance" at the approach in an open carriage of His Excellency Vere Brabazon Ponsonby (pronounced punsunby), Earl of Bessborough and Governor General of the Dominion of Canada...
...trying to execute a few simple evolutions. Up drove Premier Bennett in his glistening Stearns-Knight (an "orphan car" no longer manufactured). Up drove other delegates in official Buicks. In the House of Commons, kleig lights blazed upon the Throne, movietone cameras whirred, microphones were switched on and Lord Bessborough began to read the King's message while all delegates and spectators stood...
...preference to Argentine beef? The King's subjects have invested over $1,500,000.000 in Argentina. Dare they antagonize that Latin American government? Dare they risk reprisals which could be launched against $1.500.000,000 of British property actually in Argentina? And what about Brazil? What about the Earl of Bessborough's own coffee-carrying railway in that South American state...
Conference Agenda. Canadian Premier Bennett, a Conservative closely allied with Conservatives of maximum wealth in Great Britain, was personally responsible for bringing to Canada his Big-Business friend the Earl of Bessborough as Governor General. Lord Bessborough is the first vice-regal occupant of Rideau Hall to have been chosen by George V on the advice of a Canadian premier. He is the fourth Irish peer to be Canada's Governor General. As a businessman Lord Bessborough was said last week to have collaborated in drafting the "Provisional Agenda" which Premier Bennett made ready for the Conference after consulting...
Sentiment is after all the chief tie which still unites the nations of the British Commonwealth. Soon after he stepped upon Canadian soil Lord Bessborough struck the note that must and will be sounded again & again during the Imperial Economic Conference. "I feel," said His Excellency, "that our interests are being more closely linked day by day." This sentiment may surmount Irish hatred, Indian passive resistance and Dutch-begotten South African suspicion of the Mother Country...