Word: lyon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...club is honoring his memory by distributing salty Sumner sayings, which are a joy to every good Republican. More importantly, the anniversary was marked last week by the publication of a centennial edition of Sumner's Folkways (Ginn; $4), a profoundly influential book. Wrote Yale's William Lyon Phelps, a fervent Sumner admirer, in the introduction: "Folkways is a book that never was a best seller and has never stopped selling. It has a steady persistence, reminding us of the tide, that makes no sound and fury and that nothing can stop...
...occasion for last week's stirrings was the new collaboration in defense with the U. S. arranged at Ogdensburg, N. Y. by Franklin Roosevelt and Canada's Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King. The arrangement itself was greeted in Canada with delight. Canadians like the U. S. They have to: The Dominion of Canada is vast but inhabited Canada amounts to a corridor, nowhere much wider than 200 miles, which lies snug against 3,000 miles of U. S. border...
Then the President moved on to Ogdensburg to meet his old friend William Lyon Mackenzie King, Prime Minister of Canada. They met in the railway car Roald Amundsen in the Rome Yard track at Ogdensburg, while the sun beat down unmercifully outside. Only Secretary of War Stimson witnessed the meeting. Outside laborers stuffed huge hunks of ice into the car's air-conditioning system. A few grizzled chickens grubbed aimlessly among the weeds that all but concealed the adjoining tracks. A group of truck drivers idled about the foot of a monument that marks the site of Fort...
...France, a self-sufficient nation, was hungry was indicated by a report from Lyon that since its arrival the Nazi Army of Occupation had seized 140 trainloads of provisions, paying for them with 1,000,000,000 francs worth of "bonds." To French hopes that at least some of the confiscated goods would be returned, the Nazi welfare authorities replied: "It is not the conqueror's business to relieve the world misery and distress caused by the fault of the vanquished...
...voice, brisk of manner, like a hornet for energy (he has worked between 16 and 20 hours a day for the last month), J. L. Ralston is widely considered the ablest man in Canada's wartime Government and the one most likely to succeed Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King. His report glowed...