Word: tweedsmuir
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Dates: during 1935-1935
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...kill-the-horse-first bill is often introduced in Britain's House of Commons, has been urged by such humane M.P.'s as the new Governor General of Canada, John Buchan, ist Baron Tweedsmuir, but has never been passed by His Majesty's Government. Against such a bill the argument runs that "poor man's meat" is essential to human life in the slums of impoverished Europe and that if horsemeat is made more expensive by humanity to horses, the humanity to half-starved humans will be less...
With Canadian bookstores and cinema houses plugging his royalties furiously last week, canny John Buchan, First Baron Tweedsmuir, prolonged the money-making suspense of his arrival as Governor General by postponing it to Nov. 2. The given reason for this delay was to allow time for William Lyon Mackenzie King, the Liberal victor in Canada's general election (TIME, Oct. 21), to be sworn in as Premier before the distinguished author arrives to occupy viceregal Rideau Hall...
People who cite insomnia as their reason for reading John Buchan's romances and detective stories are flattered and disarmed by Lord Tweedsmuir's story that he also devotes his serious working hours to historical biographies, business trading and politics. Troubled with insomnia himself, he scribbles his novels in the wee hours to put himself to sleep. His reason for entering politics is that after the War he felt that every able man should put his best abilities at the disposal of King & Country for Reconstruction. Said he in 1920: "It looks as if some kind of politics...
...proved so oversold on the nomination that he not only made Commoner Buchan his Governor-General but enthusiastically dubbed him Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael & St. George, then capped this knighthood and vexed many Canadians by raising him to the peerage as Baron Tweedsmuir (TIME...
Unsolved Problem. Where Canadians stand in the Empire and their attitude toward King George & Queen Mary as symbolized in the Dominion by Lord & Lady Tweedsmuir may be shrewdly guessed from a major pronouncement during the campaign by Premier Bennett. Though pro-English, a personal friend of the King, and with the warmest feelings for the Mother Country and her aristocracy, Mr. Bennett on the stump felt obliged to say to Canadians: "The Motherland is still vigorous and powerful, but it is no longer the directive machine of our national life. . . . Relationship between Canada and Great Britain still constitutes an unsolved...