Word: distinc
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Majesty's Opposition. So marked was the political calm amid which Parliament assembled, last week, that attention focused on one man, merely because his eminence is new. He is Richard Bedford Bennett, 57, full throated as a singing thrush. Aside from such physical distinc- tion Mr. Bennett is among the most distinguished of Canadian barristers, and was Minister of Finance in the last Conservative Cabinet, which fell (TIME, Oct. 4, 1926) with such emphasis that the then Conservative Premier, veteran statesman Arthur Meighen, had to be replaced as leader of his party. He was replaced, last October, after almost...
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