Word: macbrien
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Dates: during 1937-1937
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...until three days before the Coronation will Canada's most popular delegation, a troop of 34 scarlet-coated "Mounties," reach London, a fact that kept War Office underlings in a state of jitters for weeks. To Major General Sir James H. MacBrien, commissioner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, they cabled anxiously that the men come sooner to get their horses accustomed to cheering crowds. General MacBrien cabled back that the horses were being made crowdwise at Rockliffe Barracks near Ottawa...
Retorted Major General MacBrien: "Bears are one thing our horses are 'broke...