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That evening he boarded a train at St. Andrews, N. B. His farewell to Lieut. Governor Murray MacLaren of New Brunswick: "I hope to come back next year even if it is in the role of a private citizen." Next morning in Quebec he was welcomed aboard his train as a visiting sovereign. John Buchan, first Baron Tweedsmuir, Governor General of Canada and the person of His Majesty the King in the Dominion, met the Presidential special, accompanied by Canadian Premier William Lyon Mackenzie King, Lieut. Governor Esioff Léon Patenaude of Quebec and U. S. Minister Norman Armour...
...after a fortnight of his favorite sport, wearing new-grown mutton-chop whiskers like his late father's, the President ended his 417-mile cruise at Campobello Island, seeing his summer home for the first time since 1933. At week's end he planned to journey to Quebec for a one-day call on Canada's Governor General, Lord Tweedsmuir, then set out on a short motoring survey of New England's flood-control needs, ending at Hyde Park...
...influenza last April, in a Washington hospital; Chairman Jesse Jones of the Reconstruction Finance Corp., of influenza, in Rawlins, Wyo.; James Ramsay MacDonald, of an infection, in London; John Jacob Raskob, of neuritis, in Idaho Falls, Idaho; Lord Tweedsmuir, Governor General of Canada, of a gastric ailment, in Quebec...
Sirs: No "pink-faced graduate of Amherst College" (TIME, June 22), Quebec's new Premier J. Adelard Godbout is a B.Sc. of École d'Agriculture de Ste. Anne in Quebec and a former graduate student (1919-22) at Massachusetts State College. Ours is, according to their historians, the daughter of Amherst College and we, as New Englanders, may well be proud of that, but the two schools are separated by the length of the village of Amherst and a number of other differences...
Last November his party won the elections by the unprecedently narrow margin of a majority of six in the Quebec Legislature. Allied with the Conservative opposition was the new reform Liberal party, Action Liberale Nationale, of Paul Gouin, son of Taschereau's predecessor as Premier. Since then Conservative Maurice Duplessis, Opposition leader, has pried into the Liberal's solidified habits of graft, got the Legislature to start a Public Accounts Committee investigation. The committee was heavily packed with old-guard Liberals but Representative Duplessis was far too smart for them. At last week's committee meeting...