Word: queene
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...delay adjournment more than any other subject, and in this fight Filibusterer Pittman. chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, was cast for another leading role. Last fortnight the House received from acting chairman Sol Bloom of the Foreign Affairs Committee, prognathous hero of the reception to King George & Queen Elizabeth, a bill drafted in accordance with Franklin Roosevelt's and Cordell Hull's desire for a free hand in case of war abroad. Under it, embargoes of war material would no longer be mandatory. The President would have broad discretion to regulate U. S. exports, travel...
...Arrested next day were Ian and Colin Montgomery, Alexander Calvert. Reported the Count: "I recognized Ian Montgomery and asked him, 'Why are you doing this to me?' He said I had written in my column that his mother was invited to the reception for the King and Queen of England and that his father had not been invited...
Escorted by the Canadian destroyers Skeena and Saguenay and the British cruisers Glasgow and Southampton, the Empress put out to sea, while crowds ashore roared God Save the King. From the bridge the King and Queen waved their farewell; the Queen was almost invisible behind the high railing until something was brought for her to stand on. On Chebucto Head a great smelly bonfire of wood, oil and old tires, visible for 80 miles, was built to cheer them on their way. But for a brief stop at St. John's, capital of Newfoundland, Britain's oldest colony...
...England their subjects were preparing to show them how glad they were to have them back. Planes and more battleships will meet them at sea to escort them into Southampton. A five-car special will whisk them to London, where their children, Queen Mary and the Cabinet will be waiting at the station. In the is-minute procession to Buckingham Palace the Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret Rose will ride in the open landau with their father and mother. There will be no formal decorations, but residents along the way are invited to display "spontaneous" decorations, and M.P.s will gather outside...
Informed by a Saturday Evening Post article that London tap water tastes like soap, but that King George & Queen Elizabeth like it anyway, Philadelphia Chemist LeRoy Drew Betz procured a sample from his London agents. Chemist Betz then duplicated its color, hardness, chemical content, using as a base distilled water from the Schuylkill, sent 25 gallons to the White House ("purely as a gesture of patriotism and a possible means of increasing the comfort of the visiting monarchs...