Word: gordons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said he: "These [documents] are of great concern not only to Canada but to other United Nations." This week Canadians were none the wiser as to what these documents contained. But after reading them, Opposition Leader Gordon Graydon said flatly: "The Government has not told the whole story. ..." By thus taking his critics into his confidence, Mr. King had avoided a public answer to reports long current in London and Ottawa. According to these reports, McNaughton and General Sir Bernard Law Montgomery, new commander of the British invasion forces, clashed at every turn. Unanswered, too, was the charge that McNaughton...
...orders. He knew far more about Europe than House did. Born in Maryland, educated in New Hampshire (St. Paul's) and Germany (Heidelberg), Bonsal had in 1915 been a world traveler and newspaperman for 30 years, became a lieutenant colonel in World War I. For James Gordon Bennett, editor of the New York Herald (who, he says, was fond of "quoting winged words which, rightly or wrongly, he attributed to Abraham Lincoln"), Bonsal covered the meetings of Russian and German revolutionists in New York City and London, flew in balloon races, once tested a submarine in New York Harbor...
...United Front. On Monday, when Parliament got down to business, moderate Opposition Leader Gordon Craydon of the Progressive-Conservative Party tried to water the briskly blazing political fires. His equivocal view: "Common sense indicates that every effort must be made to secure a united front in a united Canada in a greater and more powerful British Commonwealth...
...Right. Nominally, the Prime Minister's Opposition is the Progressive Conservative Party, which controls 39 seats in Commons. Its parliamentary leader is polite, round-faced Gordon Graydon. But he is only warming a chair for the party's real leader, John Bracken...
...Over Twenty-One is decidedly vin Gordonaire, but it is smoothly decanted. Skimpy scenes are saved by funny gags and shrewd "business." (When the Hollywood producer gets into a tantrum on the phone he stops, ceremoniously hands his secretary the receiver, snaps: "Hang up on him.") As Paula, Actress Gordon purrs, shrugs, grimaces, ladles out her syrup, squirts her poison with enormous verve. George S. Kaufman directs traffic with his expert eye for preventing the wrong kind of snarl and encouraging the right kind of collision...