Word: maces
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While the Speaker of the House of Commons dozed behind the great oak table on which lies its glittering silver-gilt mace, the Masses and the Classes of Great Britain clashed in the persons of their duly elected M. P.'s last week over a 4th Century Biblical manuscript for which the Soviet Government has been paid...
...think so, Governor" (see p. 72). Two days later, accompanied by Vice President Garner and members of the Cabinet, he went to Manhattan to attend the Woodin funeral. ¶ To Congress, the President sent a special message asking it to authorize return to Canada of the mace of the Parliament of Ontario, seized by the U. S. Army in 1813 (see p. 19). ¶ Soviet Ambassador Troyanovsky visited the White House to discuss Russian debt negotiations and presented the philatelic President with a volume containing a new issue of Soviet stamps, sent by Commissar Litvinoff. ¶By two strokes...
...April 1813, across Lake Ontario against York (now Toronto), a village important only as the capital of Ontario. The U. S. soldiers took York after a little skirmishing and raided the Parliament House. On the table of the House lay the legislative assembly's official mace. Over the Speaker's dais was a canopy surmounted by a wooden figure of the British lion. Over the mace was what Commodore Chauncey, who had ferried Pike's men across the Lake, called a scalp. It was the Speaker's wig. The raiders took them all, as well...
...troops burnt York to the ground. The burning of York was one of the reasons the British gave for their burning of Washington a year later. Three reminders of the York episode still lay last week in a showcase of the U. S. Naval Academy at Annapolis. They were mace, lion and standard. The wig had vanished...
Last week President Roosevelt sent a special message to Congress reminding it of the old mace and the new tablet and making the following suggestion: "It would be a gracious act for the U. S. to return this historic mace to Canada at the time of the unveiling of the tablet. The mace is a token of representative government established at York nearly a century and a half ago. . . . Since the agreement of 1817 the two countries have by common accord maintained no hostile armaments on either side of their boundary; and every passing year cements the peace and friendship...