Word: lyon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dominion Government was caught off base; it was angry and indignant at the sudden dropping of meat rationing in the U.S. (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King hastened over to tell the House of Commons his decision: the U.S. could end meat rationing if it pleased, Canada would...
...Ottawa's cavernous Union Station, where he arrived with Canada's own homecoming Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King, Clem Attlee shook the hands of nearly 100 welcome-bent dignitaries while bagpipes tootled Cock o' the North. Then he strode down a red carpet into three hectic days...
Canada's Premier William Lyon Mackenzie King arrived ten minutes later by train from New York and took up residence at Blair House. The talks between the three men whose nations had collaborated on the atomic bomb began at lunch...
...tariff was slipped unobtrusively into the budget at the last minute, during the absence in England of Canada's most articulate champion of free trade: Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King-and wholly without his knowledge...
Rewards. For those who resisted Nazi favors, things were looking up. Both Casals and Thibaud, waiting for the tribunal to meet, were passing their time concertizing in France, Switzerland and England. Conductor Paul Paray, who defied Cortot by resigning from the Lyon radio symphony rather than fire Jews, announced that he was off to the U.S. to conduct the Boston Symphony...