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...rostrum, faced a room filled with Liberation Committee members, Allied diplomatic observers, and Assembly delegates, many of whom had come directly from Occupied France. Looking down, De Gaulle saw General Henri Honore Giraud. And perhaps in his mind's eye he could see France too-Strasbourg, Metz, Lyon, Marseilles, Paris. Said he, grimly and pointedly...
Founder of the Waldensians was Peter Waldo, a rich merchant of Lyon, France, who started preaching the Reformation more than three centuries before Luther or Calvin. The Church excommunicated them, persecuted them (150 were burned alive...
...late William Lyon Phelps," who died last August, was listed by the book-peddling Classics Club, in full-page newspaper ads, as one of the four members of the Club's selection committee...
Political sunlight streamed down on pallid Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King during the conference at Quebec. Thousands of pictures in thousands of newspapers showed him basking between Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt. The broad Prime Minister beamed, thinking perhaps that Canadians who have been showering cold criticism on his wartime administration would now see him in the proper light: as a statesman helping to make big Allied decisions with Churchill and Roosevelt...
...next honorary degree was given in Harvard's more traditional manner, when Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King of Canada was awarded the Doctor of Laws amid the pomp and ceremony of the 1923 Commencement...