Word: lyon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Zealand's Peter Fraser tended to go along with London and Winston Churchill, did as little as a near neighbor could do to support Australia. Of all the Dominions, Canada had long been the most aggressive in her demands for autonomy within the Commonwealth. Her Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King stoutly stood with Churchill, content to let London run the Empire...
...field, including the men who will be running the mile and two mile in the spring, is now being paced by Archie Lyon, who prepped at Andover and Browne and Nichols. He turned in a very spectacular time against Northeastern in the person of one of the Carroll twins Saturday, and has been improving steadily. Says Jaakko, "He has the stuff, and should be a wonder...
...World War II Canada has conscripted 15,000 men for home service, has sent 175,000 volunteers abroad. Last week Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King called for a national plebiscite on conscription for overseas service...
...Children's Anthology-ed. by William Lyon Phelps...
...politics when, as the logical successor to the late, great Sir Wilfred Laurier, he was kept from the Liberal Party leadership by a deal designed to prevent another Catholic French Canadian from becoming Prime Minister. To break the Party stalemate he threw his support to the then untried William Lyon Mackenzie King in a deal of his own. For French Canada he retained special language, education and religious rights...