Word: windsors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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They met in the Royal Gallery of the House of Lords last week, and for them King George gave a reception at Windsor Castle. Their skins were brown, yellow and white, but each of the 500 was like the others in being a legislator, a member of some duly elected Parliament, Congress or Diet. Arriving from 32 countries they met in London as the Inter-Parliamentary Union and began to talk "Peace...
...read a telegraphic order from Ottawa, last week sent to Andrew Dalziel, Canadian Collector of Customs at Detroit's river neighbor, Windsor, Ont. It meant that Canada had put into effect the law, long sought by U. S. Drys, forbidding export of liquor to the U. S., and requiring other liquor cargoes to post double bond, insurance against U. S. bootlegging. Immediately, Mr. Dalziel closed ten export docks along the Detroit river. Also immediately, 5,000 cases of liquor were ferried across to Detroit 'leggers, who anticipated a temporary shortage...
...half-hour enough planes were put in the sky to panic-strike, if not devastate, any city in the world. New Yorkers who had seen the Navy's great air "raid" (TIME, May 19) or readers of Hearstpapers who two days prior to the review had seen Cartoonist Windsor McKay's nightmarishly memorable picture of a city gassed from the skies, were more than ever impressed with the perfection of modern sea machinery...
...gathering of London newsmen in London last week, spoke the father of Britain's most newsworthy minor, the Princess Elizabeth Alexandra Mary ("Lilybet") Windsor, 4. But His Royal and paternal Highness the Duke of York was not complaining. Goodnatured, he has the good sense to know that great personages tend in democracies to be public property. His mother has taught him, as she herself was taught, humility on the subject...
...Prince's plane landed virtually on his own lawn, at Windsor Great Park. His pet Cairn terrier, Cora, barked a joyous welcome. His brothers, the Duke of York and Prince George, greeted him, whisked him away to Fort Belvedere where his parents waited...