Word: alberts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Just as joyful to eye-rubbing Tories was a dawning hope. CCF Candidate Albert Earl Godfrey, who ran a dismal third, had stood on the campaign's fringes shouting hallelujahs for the promised land of socialism. If Grey North was any indication of Dominion sentiment, the lusty CCF had lost a lot of its abracadoomph...
...despair that infected all classes, from the Queen Mother Elisabeth (once the wife of World War I's beloved King Albert) and her Regent Son Charles to the poorest peasant on the Flanders plain or the meanest miner in the coal-rich Borinage. The upper and middle classes felt a mounting insecurity before social dislocations. The lower classes felt insecurity in everything-and their resentment found a scapegoat in Premier-Pierot, who had spent the war years as head of the Government in Exile in London...
...Ontario riding of Grey North, the political temperature rose. Cried CCF Candidate Albert Earl Godfrey: "We should . . . conscript wealth and industry as well as men." Cried Tory Candidate Garfield Case: his opponents were "outsiders," the CCF was fascist, General McNaughton was "incompetent." Cried Liberal Candidate Andrew B. L. McNaughton, National Defense Minister: "The Canadian Army overseas is being adequately reinforced...
...were confident. With Garfield Case, three-term Mayor of Owen Sound (pop. 14,000) in the field against McNaughton, they felt they could pick up enough dissident Liberal votes to win. But last week the situation abruptly changed. The Socialist CCFers picked a candidate of their own: Manitoba-born Albert Earl Godfrey...
Schoenfeld, who was introduced by Albert Sprague Coolidge, President of the Massachusetts Civil Liberties Union, claimed that all those who support the cause of civil liberties should fight for the pardon of the remaining labor leaders in order to make it impossible for future "frumps" to prevent militant trade unionists from expressing their opinions...