Word: citizens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...coincidence is that President Roosevelt has been making unusual efforts to make friends with Canada, not least of which was his trip to Montreal last August. The U. S. State Department, like the ordinary U. S. citizen, for decades ignored Canada. There were no direct diplomatic relations between the countries until Ministers were exchanged in 1927. Relations of Britain with the U. S. have often been more cordial than relations of Canada with the U. S. The President has been at pains to alter this situation...
...cause of the confusion was at once to be seen, for the State was bending its car to the plaint of a Citizen. On this morning a big Irish Policeman, the grey of the ulster set off by his apple-red face, was the State, and he leaned over the side of his traffic box to talk with a man of the street. The latter was a well-dressed fellow, and from the puzzled expressions of the two it was clear that the location of some back street was uncertain in their minds. As we passed beneath the symbol...
...England", Le continued, "the future of the Empire lay in the strength of her Civil Service, and depended on the fact that more importance was attributed to collective action than that of the private citizen. While we were developing and exploring the 3000 miles of our continent, we made this nation by what we did individually. But now, in this second stage of our progress, it is much more important that we strive as a body in this, our national government...
While I am an American citizen, I have many relations in England, and am in touch with British reactions very closely. My brother is a member of the Reform Club of London, where naturally he meets many of the most prominent British politicians. As to the emeralds, I should have added that Garrard's the jewelers who bought them from Princess Victoria, sent them to Cartier's in Paris, and it was actually Cartier's who made the sale, on behalf of Garrard's to King Edward. As I said before, these stones are very large...
...illness; in Washington. Paid $9.000 a year and his living, Brain-Truster Colson shrewdly directed Emperor Haile Selassie's appeals to the League of Nations against Italian invasion, after Addis Ababa had fallen went to Geneva to plead Ethiopia's cause as the first U. S. citizen seated in the League as a foreign delegate...