Word: lyon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...said Canada's Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King, "will stand throughout time as one of the milestones of freedom. It points the way to ultimate and certain victory." Australia's Prime Minister Robert Gordon Menzies broadcast this message of thanks to the U. S.: "You are neutral and we are at war, but you have made the whole world understand that the moral and material might of a great neutral country can always be placed behind the belligerent, who fights for justice." Closer to realism, Prime Minister Jan Christiaan Smuts of South Africa said: "Hitler...
Before a packed gallery of quiet court hangers-on and ragged Lyon supporters, District Attorney Robert F. Bradford '23 and Francis T. Leahy, Lyons' counsel, came out into the trial's second day with both fists flying. Throughout the session, presiding Judge Harold P. Williams had to call for order and compromise between the antagonistic lawyers...
Died. Lady Maud Agnes Bowes-Lyon, 70, sister of the 14th Earl of Strathmore and as such aunt of Britain's Queen Elizabeth; after an operation; in Worcestershire, England...
...Yale men this was an event only less newsworthy than Professor William Lyon ("Billy") Phelps's retirement in 1933. It was also of interest to U. S. letters, to which Johnny Berdan gave Sinclair Lewis, Stephen Vincent Benét, Thornton Wilder, Philip Barry, Walter Millis, many another notable author. Said Yale's President Charles Seymour, announcing "with regret" the professor's retirement: "The U. S. never produced a teacher more skillful in the field of English composition...
Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King immediately challenged Dr. McClure, demanded that he present proof of his charge or apologize. After a chat with Dr. Oscar Douglas Skelton, Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Dr. McClure backtracked, was promptly assailed as "irresponsible" by the press...