Word: loyalism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...First, by the defeat of France, as Minister of Defense J. L. Ralston remarked, "Canada has suddenly been put very much on her own." Britain could no longer supply Canada with articles which, with France's assistance, had been surplus. Second, the imminent attack on Britain left many loyal Canadians wondering whether Canada might not be independent (or at least without a mother country) much sooner than she wanted...
...swarm of tiny home-built sloops tugged at Prince George Wharf in Nassau one morning last week, bobbing lazily on the swells. For days the native grapevine had hummed through the outer islands of the Bahamas, carrying the news that "the King" was coming. Loyal island blackamoors streamed in to see him, unaware that the King was now only a Duke. In a tangle of livestock, cooking utensils and wriggling-black babies, they sat on their crowded decks, awaiting the "Rejoicin...
...opening proceedings took exactly eight minutes. Clerk of the Court Greffier Jardel read the oath: "Do you swear honestly and faithfully to fulfill your duties, to guard religiously the secrets of the deliberations, and to act throughout as a worthy and loyal magistrate?" One after another the seven justices said: "Je jure." Then Chief Justice Caous adjourned the court. The long and painstaking inquiry into the responsibility for France's defeat was scheduled to begin this week...
...confused with Elizabeth's real and loyal Secretary of State, Sir Francis Walsingham...
Died. Jean Rodenbaugh Davis, 51, first grand regent of the Women of the Moose, wife of Senator James J. Davis (Rep. Pa.), Secretary of Labor from 1921 to 1930 and still Director General of the Loyal Order of Moose; of heart disease; in Ventnor...