Word: buchan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Therefore his visit to Warm Springs- just after the French had made financial overtures to the Treasury Department; just after the visit of Canada's Premier Mackenzie King; just before the forthcoming visit of Canada's Governor-General Lord Tweedsmuir (John Buchan); while the President is dallying with the idea of a U. S. diplomatic reshuffling and the still bigger idea of some major proposal to promote world peace-was as good an indication as any man could ask that during the entr'acte Protagonist Roosevelt intended to rehearse important lines for use later in the play...
...weekly Presbyterian Banner announced that Toronto's Victoria College awarded an honorary Doctor of Divinity degree Oct. 10 to "Lord Tweed S. Muir, Governor-General of Canada." Few days after said John Buchan (Lord Tweedsmuir) upon receiving an honorary Doctor of Laws from Queen's University at Kingston, Ont.: "We are living in a confused and difficult world...
Committed to the State asylum for the insane at Elgin, Ill., was William Rockne, 19, son of Notre Dame's late Football Coach Knute Kenneth Rockne. His disease: dementia praecox. At Carlton, Saskatchewan, Author John Buchan, First Baron Tweedsmuir, Governor General of Canada, was crowned with feathers, draped in caribou skin, made a member of the Cree tribe, under the name Okemow Otataowkew ("Teller of Tales...
...train at St. Andrews, N. B. His farewell to Lieut. Governor Murray MacLaren of New Brunswick: "I hope to come back next year even if it is in the role of a private citizen." Next morning in Quebec he was welcomed aboard his train as a visiting sovereign. John Buchan, first Baron Tweedsmuir, Governor General of Canada and the person of His Majesty the King in the Dominion, met the Presidential special, accompanied by Canadian Premier William Lyon Mackenzie King, Lieut. Governor Esioff Léon Patenaude of Quebec and U. S. Minister Norman Armour. With an escort of Royal...
...kill-the-horse-first bill is often introduced in Britain's House of Commons, has been urged by such humane M.P.'s as the new Governor General of Canada, John Buchan, ist Baron Tweedsmuir, but has never been passed by His Majesty's Government. Against such a bill the argument runs that "poor man's meat" is essential to human life in the slums of impoverished Europe and that if horsemeat is made more expensive by humanity to horses, the humanity to half-starved humans will be less...