Word: roy
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sixth Day. In Toronto Monday noon, Their Majesties met the only Canadians who are perhaps more famous than themselves-the Dionne Quintuplets. What happened history will enjoy longer than any other episode of this trip. With Dr. Allan Roy Dafoe, Oliva Dionne and wife and seven of the eight other Dionnes, the Quintuplets were bustled into the Lieutenant Governor's room of the Parliament Building. All five wore puffy, white organdie court frocks and poke bonnets, and each wore her favorite flower in her hair. Already astounded by the miracle of their first train trip and a ride through...
...addition to being a great arranger, Fletcher had a few years ago what is considered by many to have been the greatest swing band ever assembled. Such stars as Louis Armstrong, Benny Carter, Coleman Hawkins, Roy Eldridge, Chu Berry, and Israel Crosby were members of the band during the nineteen thirty-three period. Goodman, following his custom of copying only the best has recently made recordings of "Wrapping It Up" and "Big John's Special" that are note for note copies of the Henderson Deccas...
...agreement on the principle of union hiring; let them within 36 hours settle the technicalities, start digging coal. Back in Manhattan the two sides were still wrangling when the time limit set by the President expired. Early in the morning as the meeting broke up U. S. Conciliator John Roy Steelman issued a statement: ". . . As Government representatives, we are asking that such companies and associations as are in agreement with the [union] sign contracts and begin operations immediately ... to relieve the grave crisis facing the nation. ... It is the purpose of the Federal Government to render every possible assistance...
...altered and round tables replaced when officials belatedly realized that no one may sit with his back to the King. At the Chateau gold-plated microphones were installed for the King's first speech. Towns along the St. Lawrence heaped bonfires, decked railway stations. At Callander, Dr. Allan Roy Dafoe got his morning coat out of mothballs and the Dionne quintuplets practiced pretty curtsies in preparation for their trip to Toronto to meet King George and Queen Elizabeth. Governor General Lord Tweedsmuir (Author John Buchan) collected a library for Their Majesties, books on Canadian life, political works and novels...
...John Roy Steelman, director of the U. S. Department of Labor's conciliation service, was in a most unhappy state. His manuscript rattled in his hands, he stumbled over his words. At the behest of Madam Secretary Frances Perkins, he had come to Manhattan to make peace between operators in the great Appalachian coal fields and United Mine Workers' John Lewis, who for seven weeks had been unable to agree on a new labor contract. Having heard him out last week, John Lewis ironically announced that the same committeemen who had failed before would continue to negotiate along...