Word: buchan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Thirty-Nine Steps (Mon. 9 p.m. CBS). Mercury Theatre adaptation of the international spy thriller by John Buchan (Canada's Governor-General Lord Tweedsmuir...
Making an additional award of a Harvard honorary degree, the Metropolitan press last night reported that John Buchan, Baron Tweedsmuir and Governor General of Canada, will come here to be so distinguished Commencement...
AUGUSTUS - John Buchan - Houghton Mifflin ($4.50). Attempt, carefully collated, well-considered, sympathetically written by Lord Tweedsmuir, Governor General of Canada, to recreate what the creator of the "Augustan Peace" must have been like. Heavyish going, however, for all but the more serious readers...
...lean, 61-year-old Scotsman, now Lord Tweedsmuir but until two years ago just plain John Buchan, writer of history, biography and light-hearted adventure tales," hastened to explain that a tinsel uniform was not his customary garb, then to say that he had asked to see the press in hope that some of the War correspondents whom he had known 20 years ago when he was serving as the British Director of Information in France might be among them. Were there any such? The newshawks looked at one another...
...Significance. These sidewise compliments to his host not only served to endear the Governor-General to the President, but to show how much Franklin Roosevelt had already endeared himself to Lord Tweedsmuir. It is safe to say that John Buchan as a politician who began his public career as private secretary to Lord Milner in South Africa, and served eight years as a British M. P., had met no more persuasive politician, than Franklin Roosevelt, or as a literary man, no more engaging listener. The result of the Governor-General's visit is, therefore, that when Britons...