Word: tweedsmuir
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...American) by doing a day's work in the town where he began. Because both papers on which he worked have been long defunct, he had to do it on their rival sheet, the daily Local News, under Editor Edwin L. McKinstry. Canada's Governor-General Lord Tweedsmuir, who has written 51 books under his commoner's name of John Buchan, called them "a terrible weight on my conscience," confessed with a simper that he has written "far, far too many...
Canadian Prime Minister King was on a West Indies holiday last week, and Governor General Lord Tweedsmuir announced after the Prime Minister's return that a committee headed by Mr. King will begin to draft an itinerary to be followed by Their Majesties in North America...
...Thirty-Nine Steps (Mon. 9 p.m. CBS). Mercury Theatre adaptation of the international spy thriller by John Buchan (Canada's Governor-General Lord Tweedsmuir...
When he took office, "Bible Bill" asked Ottawa for a loan of $18,000,000, received only $2,850,000. When he tried to put through a law muzzling the hostile press and making all banks Social Credit institutions, Governor General Lord Tweedsmuir vetoed the project. Final setback came last March. According to the British North America Act (Canada's Constitution), the Dominion holds control over currency, banking, interprovincial commerce. Canada's Supreme Court pondered Alberta's Social Credit laws, decided unanimously that they ran afoul the Dominion's monetary system...
Making an additional award of a Harvard honorary degree, the Metropolitan press last night reported that John Buchan, Baron Tweedsmuir and Governor General of Canada, will come here to be so distinguished Commencement...