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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Queen visit the chambers of Congress instead of receiving Congress in the Capitol rotunda? His Majesty, Sir Ronald corrected would not receive members of Congress they would receive him. Furthermore His Majesty, restrained by British custom from appearing in the chambers of Parliament except to deliver his annual speech from the throne of the House of Lords,* naturally hesitated to visit the chambers of another country...
Mississippi's Ross Collins seized the occasion to recall that once when he needed a Biblical quotation for a speech, he borrowed a Bible from the late devout old Congressman Ackerman of New Jersey. On the flyleaf was written: "I had this Bible in my pocket when I went up with Lindbergh...
...Starting at Aachen on the Belgian frontier, Führer Hitler demonstratively inspected the reputedly impregnable 400-mile steel and concrete Limes Line (also called West Wall) on the French border, pronounced it good. II Duce wound up a tour of the Italian-French border with a more threatening speech against France than he had previously made on his tour...
...Parliament Red Room, seated in two thrones under a huge wooden crucifix, they heard Provincial Premier Maurice Duplessis read a speech of welcome in both English and French, since Canada is officially bilingual under its Constitution. When presentations began, in a room packed with Dominion officials, grand dames, colorful monsignori and sandaled monks, the first man to be presented was Rodrigue Cardinal Villeneuve, the spiritual head of 89% of Quebec's people. The Cardinal gave the King's hand a lingering, fatherly patting...
Then Queen Elizabeth made her first speech, and exercised the Royal prerogative to break a date. The date she broke was engraved in six-inch letters on the cornerstone of the new Supreme Court building which will rise on a bluff overlooking the Ottawa River. Unwary of the fact that Their Majesties' visit might be delayed, engravers had marked the stone as laid on May 19. Blithely, with an ivory-handled gold trowel, the Queen tapped the stone on May 20, declared it laid, chatted with a Scottish stone mason whose accent moved her to remark: "You haven...