Word: canadians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Outside London's famed Old Bailey last week, Britons by the hundreds queued up hopefully for gallery seats. Inside the venerable courthouse, facing a jury on terms unprecedented in the long annals of English law, sat a slim, stolid, German-born Canadian immigrant named Gunther Fritz Podola...
...other questions about 31 elections and 23 Prime Ministers since the parliamentary-reform bill of 1832, were distributed to government officials, party headquarters, university political clubs, educators, libraries, and other groups throughout the British Commonwealth. TIME previously distributed its "Argument Settler" for the 1956 U.S. elections and the 1957 Canadian elections, hopes the 1959 British wheel will be as successful as the others in providing useful information and in resolving the disputes that arise during national campaigns...
This week Canada installs in office a new Governor General George Philias Vanier. 71, the first French Canadian to serve as head of state in the U.S.'s next-door good neighbor...
...lost (and the D.S.O. he won) as a major of Quebec's famed Royal 22nd Regiment (the "Van Doos") at Cherisy in World War I. In Paris, where Vanier was Canada's admired postwar ambassador (1945-53), he is remembered as a sort of Canadian Charles de Gaulle (they are close friends...
...accessory group since 1951. Also promoted to executive vice president was Cyrus R. Osborn, 62, vice president of the engine group since 1950. In his new post, Osborn will boss G.M.'s engine divisions, the household appliance and electro-motive groups, and the overseas and Canadian units...