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Mopping their honest faces on a sizzling Alberta afternoon, district leaders of the United Farmers Party met last week to pass political judgment on Provincial Premier John Brownlee, found guilty fortnight ago of "enticing and seducing" an Alberta Government stenographer, blonde Miss Vivian MacMillan (TIME, July 9). Crestfallen Premier Brownlee had nothing to say, but the judge before whom he had been tried had plenty...
Meanwhile the United Farmers' caucus, unimpressed by Mr. Justice Ives's opinion that Miss MacMillan is as serviceable as ever, had accepted Premier Brownlee's offer to spare the Party embarrassment by handing his resignation to the representative of George V in Alberta, Lieutenant Governor W. L. Walsh. No question of the United Farmers' right to continue to rule Alberta was raised. His Majesty's representative merely appointed another United Farmer, Richard Gavin Reid, Provincial Treasurer and Minister of Municipal Affairs and Lands and Mines, to carry on as Premier...
...months of going out with the Premier of Alberta in his motor car on starry nights were described by Miss MacMillan without coming to the point until counsel for the Premier cut in : "He made a proposition to you to part with your honor...
...reporting such bits of the trial as this. Alberta Opposition papers went to such lengths last week that Mr. Justice Ives before whom the suit was being heard decided there had been contempt of court by reporters and their publishers...
Just before the six-man jury retired Premier Brownlee withdrew his counter suit for damages, saying "I desire only vindication of my honor." To grant or not to grant the Premier's desire the jury debated for four hours and 45 minutes, then brought forth lusty Alberta cheers by finding him guilty of seduction and awarding damages of $10,000 to Miss MacMillan and $5,000 to her father...