Word: lorded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whiskers like his late father's, the President ended his 417-mile cruise at Campobello Island, seeing his summer home for the first time since 1933. At week's end he planned to journey to Quebec for a one-day call on Canada's Governor General, Lord Tweedsmuir, then set out on a short motoring survey of New England's flood-control needs, ending at Hyde Park...
Next day the second presentation brought ladies carrying slickers and umbrellas over their arms although dressed in the latest Paris creations. The Lord Chamberlain anxiously scanned the skies, as did King Edward. At last they took the risk of a second downpour and won. No U. S. ladies were presented except those in the diplomatic circle. Among young British curtsy-droppers whose mothers were U. S. born was Miss Virginia Brand. Her mother is the former Phyllis Langhorne of Virginia, a sister of Lady Astor...
Meanwhile the Republicans had not been idle. Last month The Lord's Day Alliance, in semi-annual meeting in Manhattan, plumped for Presidential Nominee Landon because he had declined to deliver a political speech on Sunday; for Vice Presidential Nominee Knox because he declared he would not publish his Chicago Daily News on the Sabbath. But the National Peace Conference, a coalition of 34 peace bodies, voiced its "intense chagrin" at the weak foreign affairs planks in the Republican platform...
...Secretary of War George Henry Dern, of complications from his attack of influenza last April, in a Washington hospital; Chairman Jesse Jones of the Reconstruction Finance Corp., of influenza, in Rawlins, Wyo.; James Ramsay MacDonald, of an infection, in London; John Jacob Raskob, of neuritis, in Idaho Falls, Idaho; Lord Tweedsmuir, Governor General of Canada, of a gastric ailment, in Quebec...
...Gaumont's chairman, Brother Isidore, Gaumont's president. Their other properties include newspapers, hotels and London hotspots. Balance of power between Fox's 49% and the Ostrer's 49% in the Gaumont holding company was placed for reasons of Empire in the hands of Lord Lee of Fareham...