Word: canada
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week in London King George and Queen Elizabeth, before sailing for Canada (see p. 24), went to hear Maestro Arturo Toscanini conduct a Beethoven concert in Queen's Hall. During the intermission the King invited the Maestro to visit him in the royal box. The Maestro, who once shushed Mussolini for talking during a concert, sent word that a royal presentation would distract him too much...
...weeks workmen have swarmed over the battle cruiser Repulse, painting, polishing and refitting cabins, preparing her to take King George and Queen Elizabeth on their visit this month to Canada and the U. S. Last week Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain announced a sudden switch of plans: Their Majesties would travel not on the Repulse but on the prosaic, old, German-built liner Empress of Australia, known as the Tirpitz before she was handed over to Britain by Germany as part of reparations payment after the World...
...President Ladd, a curt, crisp oldster who likes deep-sea fishing and gardening at his estate in Coraopolis Heights outside Pittsburgh, got his job in 1928, immediately began centralizing United's plants and invading foreign markets. He consolidated seven U. S. plants into four, set up affiliates in Canada, England, France, sold complete mills to Russia, Japan, England...
That this is scarcely an extension of Pan-Americanism is revealed by the fact that Canada is the only other state in this hemisphere which Streit lists as one of the 15 prospective "charter members...
...Oakland, California, astrophysics; Donald R. Hamilton, Princeton '35, of Flushing, New York, physics; Donald B. King, Dartmouth '35, of Unionville, Connecticut, ancient history; Lynn H. Loomis, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute '37, of Ossining, New York, mathematics; and George S. Vickers, A. B. McMaster, of St. Catherine's, Ontario, Canada, fine arts...