Word: drews
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bullets & Ballots. The party line reached Calcutta's jails. Several hundred Communist prisoners staged hunger strikes and other demonstrations, built barricades of furniture, hurled brickbats at police, drew gunfire in return. Four prisoners were killed, 33 prisoners and 67 policemen injured...
...Canadian politicians in the final round of the general election campaign that ends June 27, but the weather did not stop them. They just peeled off their coats and went on with the job. In the past eight weeks Liberal Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent and Tory Leader George Drew had crisscrossed the Dominion in an appeal for votes. Despite all their oratory, the country's political temperature had stayed close to normal. It apparently would remain that way until election...
...best one. It was too early for farmers to be upset by any threat of a crop failure, too soon for most voters to be deeply worried about Canada's darkening business outlook. Most important of all, the June election gave the fighting Opposition Leader, George Drew, the shortest possible time to organize his ranks and drum up vote-getting issues...
With no outstanding differences between his own and the Liberals' platform, Tory Leader Drew never found any major issue. But he rapped the government's aircraft policy, charging that the Canadian-built Canadair planes were unsafe. He attacked the government-controlled Canadian Broadcasting Corp. and the Liberals' monetary policy. George Drew's main theme was that the Liberals were stifling free enterprise and that Canada's third party, the socialist Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF), would choke it off completely...
...Only Worry. How effective Drew's attacks had been against the Liberals would not be known until election night. There were signs, however, that his campaign had hurt the socialist CCF. In last week's provincial election in British Columbia, the CCF had its worst setback since entering B.C. politics...