Word: windsors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...every knight of the Most Noble Order of the Garter there is a banner hanging and a plaque screwed up in St. George's Chapel at Windsor Castle. After nine years of restoration, at a cost of more than $1.000.000 (much of it supplied by U. S. Anglophiles), this No. i shrine of British chivalry was re-opened last week in the presence of George V and The Lady of the Garter (Queen Mary...
Short and simple, the reopening service was without sermon, consisted chiefly of a prayer by patriarchal Dean Albert Victor Baillie of Windsor for the "Sovereign and His Companions of the Garter...
Deep under the dirty, swirling waters of the Detroit River, molelike workmen last week put finishing touches on a vehicular tunnel connecting Detroit and Windsor, Ont. To the ceremonious opening of the tunnel went Canada's Minister of the Interior Thomas Gerow Murphy, Ontario's Acting Premier George S. Henry, U. S. Minister to Canada Hanford MacNider, Michigan's Senator Arthur Hendrick Vandenburg and its Governor, Fred Warren Green. In Washington President Hoover clicked his gold telegraph key to start the first speech...
More than 20,000,000 passengers travel yearly between Detroit and Windsor. Many of them are Canadian-living, Detroit-working commuters; many of them are thirsty Detroit weekenders. By the old means-ferries and the Ambassador Bridge-more than 2,000,000 motorcars last year crossed the river. The two cities, in reality one river-divided metropolis like Minneapolis & St. Paul, are chief ports-of-entry for large quantities of Canadian products into the U. S., for large U. S. shipments into Canada. The dividing river carries annually a cargo tonnage of approximately 100,000,000,* exclusive of liquor importation...
...Reopening of St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, after ten years' restoration work costing ?200,000; at Windsor...