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...next year, the Liberals decided to appoint a party organizer, as well as public relations and press liaison officers. Need for a better job of selling the Liberal Party to the people was clearly indicated by the past year's record: except for the New Brunswick Liberal victory (won largely in an anti-Ottawa campaign), they have lost every major election test...
Elsewhere in Ontario and in two other Canadian provinces, most voters were better informed than Father Leguerrier. Campaigns were already under way in Saskatchewan (election: June 24) and in New Brunswick (June 28). Quebec and Alberta citizens, promised an election this summer, were still waiting for their premiers to name...
When Canadian confederation was agreed upon in 1866, the conferees in London had trouble common to parents everywhere: what to name the baby. Canadians would not take "colony," and Britons vetoed "kingdom." New Brunswick's Sir Leonard Tilley found inspiration in Psalms 72:8-"He shall have dominion also from sea to sea." From that, according to legend and Lady Tilley, the Dominion of Canada got its name...
...next meeting the presbytery would look long and hard at the circumstances under which Presbyterian Minister Stewart P. MacLennan considered himself at liberty to marry thrice-divorced Cinemactress Lana Turner to thrice-divorced Tinplate Heir Henry J. ("Bob") Topping. The presbyteries of Buffalo-Niagara, N.Y. and New Brunswick, N.J.-plus many a minister-had publicly raised their eyebrows at the Presbyterian nuptials (held in the home of the Hollywood Reporter's W. R. Wilkerson) three days after veteran bridegroom Topping's divorce. Chapter 12, Section 10 of the Presbyterian Directory of Worship forbids a minister to marry...
...Saturday up at Brunswick, Maine, the team, playing little attention to the wisps of snow underfoot and the howling gale overhead, swatted its way to an 8 to 1 victory over Bowdoin. Patriots Day found the same crew celebrating at Wesleyan, this time in a match that was called because of rain, with Harvard ahead...