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...English lords last week en route to the convention of the British Medical Association at Winnipeg. (Berkeley George Andrew Lord Moynihan of Leeds, surgeon, was the other...
...privy councillorship - Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (1911), Companion of the Bath (1916), Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order (1918), Knight Commander of St. Michael and St. George (1919), Knight Commander of the Bath (1926). (He must wear the insignia of those orders at the Winnipeg medical convention.) Professionally he had been "made" long before. It is ten years since his grateful monarch and good friend elevated him to the peerage. He chose the title Lord Dawson of Penn because (it is said) he traces his ancestry to the great William Penn's family...
Blonde (once red-headed), big-wristed, thick-ankled, she is possessed of an opportunistic wit and extraordinary energy. She will be 40 in October. She was born and reared on a farm near Winnipeg, Canada. Of her early cultural advantages, she says that her mother "dedicated her to God as Hannah did Samuel; instead of Cinderella and Mother Goose, I went to sleep with Jonah and the Whale and Daniel in the Lion...
Canadian Airways planes fly from Montreal to Toronto. Western Canada Airways operates from Calgary east to Winnipeg. Between Winnipeg and Cochrane, Ont. is a vast expanse favorable for flying, which might be made an extensive air link in an air-rail system, cutting nearly two days from the trans-Canada trip...
London and Winnipeg are separated by twelve days travel. But a straight line drawn from North Scotland to Winnipeg passes across the middle of Greenland, through the Faroe Islands and Iceland- nowhere over more than 300 mi. of water. That is why a party of scientists and airmen (of only 23 years average age) sailed last week from England for the Faroe Islands in Sir Ernest Shackleton's historic ship Quest. As the British arctic air route expedition, commanded by H. G. Watkins, the group will remain until autumn of 1931, amassing weather data, exploring...