Word: lyon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...long-distance runner in Canadian politics, William Lyon Mackenzie King had already broken all endurance records as Prime Minister of Canada. (Previous champion: Sir John A. Macdonald, 19 years.) Last week, he passed an Empire milestone. By completing 7,620 days (20 years, 10 months and 10 days) in office, Mackenzie King toppled the mark set by Robert Walpole for service as the King's First Minister...
...blood banks and other emergency medical services had been available at Hiroshima, 20,000 lives might have been saved, according to the Veterans Administration's Dr. George M. Lyon. He and other experts urged setting up a medical program for civilian defense...
Johnny Presents. With an ear cupped to tobacco trade gossip-which had Philip Morris' sales slipping-President Alfred E. Lyon gave out a preliminary report of the 1947-48 fiscal year. Both gross and unit sales were up over the preceding year, said Al Lyon, thanks to a sharp increase in the last two months (last year's gross...
Divorced. By Anne Ferelith, Viscountess Anson (born Bowes-Lyon), 30, slim, brunette niece of Queen Elizabeth: Thomas William Arnold, Viscount Anson, 34, Grenadier Guards captain, son & heir of the Earl of Lichfield; after almost ten years of marriage (three of separation), two children; in London...
...Germans tried to get him to collaborate. Said he: "A concentration camp is not an argument." Later he managed to escape by masquerading as a French schoolteacher, hid out in various French monasteries. He spoke a few times before refugee groups. One night, in the crypt of a big Lyon church, he told the Bishop of Metz and 1,500 fellow Lorrainers: "Hitler is lost! You may be sure of that." After that, the Nazis put a price on his head. Friends who knew him before the war now find him subtly changed. Schuman, the Premier, has more warmth than...