Word: lyon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...trip across, William Lyon Mackenzie King was the only one of the Queen Mary's passengers to have a suite, although ex-U.S. Attorney General Francis Biddle, British Air Chief Marshal Sir Charles Portal and Lady Portal were also aboard. As the Mary edged up to Southampton Sunday noon, the Prime Minister (in pale grey suit, blue tie) gawped momentarily at a quayside thronged with cheering people, then noted that they were cheering British prisoners of war arriving simultaneously at an adjacent pier. The Prime Minister waved, and joined in the cheering...
This time William Lyon Mackenzie King, obviously sniffing with anticipation, was ready. He rose in the House of Commons to define clearly his Government's (i.e., Canada's) views...
...band play the final strain of God Save the King. From the distance came the deep booms of a 19-gun salute. The Earl, plainly enjoying this time-honored parliamentary pageantry, smiled, then turned and warmly shook the hand of Canada's chunky, frock-coated Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King. A braid-heavy honor guard escorted the Earl and the Princess inside...
When General Charles de Gaulle was in Ottawa last week. Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King asked a favor: could he borrow Jacques Greber, inspector-general of city planning for France, and a world authority on garden architecture and public parks? De Gaulle agreed, and the Prime Minister called in reporters. He told them that Architect Greber would come to Canada at "the earliest sailing" to begin creating a beautiful national capital - a scheme that has long been one of the P.M.'s fondest dreams...
Lieut. Colonel Ben Lyon, Hollywood hero of the '20s, now 44, back from eight years of show business in Britain with wife Bebe Daniels, made a sentimental journey to his Atlanta birthplace. Said he, after looking the old house over: "It's pretty dilapidated...