Word: viscountal
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Ottawa, Ont., with this letter went the "distinguished citizen" about whom it was written-William Phillips, first U. S. Minister to Canada (TIME, Feb. 14). He lunched with Premier William Lyon Mackenzie King, presented his credentials to Governor General Viscount Willingdon, later dined with the Viscount at Rideau Hall, home of Lord and Lady Willingdon. Thus the Dominion greeted its first U. S. Minister, whose actual duties, however, await the official opening of the U. S. legation on July...
...hats and soft hats mingled in cosmopolitan proximity as a crowd both smart and representative of all the provinces of Canada made the merry best of a damp drizzling afternoon. Vice-Royalty attended in the person of Freeman Freeman-Thomas Viscount Willingdon, Governor-General of Canada. In a glittering open coach with outriders and postilions, His Excellency and Viscountess Willingdon rode onto the course; and then, both lovers of horseflesh, strolled eagerly out to the paddock. Only at the last moment before the Plate did they seek the Governor-General...
...Haldane, lecturer in biochemistry at Cambridge University, England, last week let be known the name of the man upon whom Professor Fraser of St. Bartholomew's Hospital, London, recently performed an experiment that required vivisection. Viscount Haldane, uncle of J. B. S. Haldane, had described the operation in the House of Lords when the topic of vivisection happened to come before that moribund body...
...Lady Astor bore a son to her first husband, Robert Gould Shaw; has borne four sons and one daughter to her second husband, Viscount Astor...
...that the world political situation is not yet ripe. . . . We must prepare public opinion not to expect wonders at once. . . . Discussion has shown that an agreement cannot be reached until public opinion in many lands has drawn nearer to a common focus, permitting governments to modify their positions. . . ." Progress. Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, recipient of the first Wilson "Peace Prize"* (TIME, Dec. 15, 1924) and British delegate on the Preparatory Commission, described the Commission's "progress" last week in optimistic terms. Said he: "The Commission has carried out its assignment. ... It has drawn up a scheme [the "Draft Treaty...