Word: lyons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...named in honor of the late Fiorello La Guardia: streets in Tel Aviv, Lyon, and Wroclaw, Poland, a hospital in Foggia, Italy, and a school in Prague...
...afternoon sun shafted down through the skylights of Ottawa's gloomy, barnlike Coliseum. Floodlights played on the poster portraits of Sir Wilfrid Laurier and Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King. Twenty-nine years ago Mr. King had taken over from his longtime friend Sir Wilfrid. Now 1,227 delegates to the National Liberal Convention were picking Mr. King's successor...
Canada's Liberals held their first national nominating convention in 1919-before that, party leaders were picked in parliamentary caucus-and the leader they picked then has led them ever since. With the retirement of William Lyon Mackenzie King, they will meet next week to pick another leader...
...last parliamentary appearance as Canada's Prime Minister, William Lyon Mackenzie King had put on a black suit, a crisp white shirt, a grey tie with pearl stickpin. Hardly anyone noticed him as he slipped into his chair in the green House of Commons chamber. Only 47 of the 245 members were at their desks. The rest had already left for their summer holidays...
...assassinated by the Nazis. If you did not know it, now you do. Take off your hat and observe one minute of silence." Clenching his teeth, Sacha complied. Notoriously fond of talking, he was silent for an entire minute. His captors took flashbulb pictures which turned up in the Lyon newspaper Le Progres. Humiliated but unharmed and untouched, he was then permitted to return to his hotel and leave town in the morning...