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Prime Minister King was not at all sure at week's end of his own personal election. In the constituency of Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, he was still leading CCFer Edward LeRoy Bowerman. But his margin had been sliced to 200-odd votes, and the soldier vote had not yet been announced...
...Gladys Strum, 38, CCFer from Saskatchewan. Since the Liberal Party's Mrs. Cora Casselman, delegate to the San Francisco conference, and Mrs. Dorise Nielsen, Labor Progressive, were beaten, Mrs. Strum will be the only woman in the new House of Commons. She is the wife of a Saskatchewan farmer, mother of a 14-year-old daughter. A good campaigner, she defeated popular Ernest Edward Perley, Progressive Conservative incumbent, who was a three-time winner, and National Defense Minister Andrew G. L. McNaughton...
...candidate, Godfrey was a surprise threat whose seriousness seemed all the greater because nobody knew how great it really was. Normally, CCFer Godfrey could hardly expect to win in a constituency that has always voted for the old-line parties. But this election was not normal. Postwar problems entered into the campaign, but it was being fought largely on the grave issue of conscription. In a three-cornered fight, if Godfrey took enough votes away from McNaughton, Tory Candidate Case might win. But Tories foresaw a split of the anti-Liberal vote. If his candidate lost, Prime Minister King would...
Ever since he set out to be Prime Minister, Canada's Tory leader, John Bracken, has had a hard time outpromising his opponents, Liberal Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King and socialist CCFer M. J. Coldwell. Just before he accepted nomination in the next Federal election for the farming constituency of Neepawa, Manitoba, John Bracken tried again...