Word: gavan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Minister Charles Gavan Power is a wild Quebec Irishman who has made a zooming success of Canada's air training scheme, and does not know how good...
...single Department of National Defense better than separate ones for Army and Navy? Canada went into the war with such a department, nominally still has one. But the job was too big; the organization was overwhelmed. So Canada backtracked, provided Ministers for Air -able Charles Gavan ("Chubby") Powers -Navy (gentle, genial Angus Macdonald) and Army (Defense Minister James Layton Ralston, No. 1 dynamo of Canada's wartime machine). All have Cabinet rank; each has his own organization. Only when matters affecting two or more services come up does Mr. Ralston on occasion function as top Minister. Then the three...
...Mackenzie King announced in Parliament that "sweeping measures" would be taken. A third and fourth division would be raised by enlistment; the first division, already abroad, would be reinforced: the second division sent abroad as soon as possible. To speed the lagging Empire Air-Training Plan, the Hon. Charles Gavan ("Chubby") Power, twice-wounded, once-decorated veteran of World War I, was appointed head of a new Ministry of National Defense for Air. Work on 100 landing fields would be rushed to completion this summer. Munitions plants and key industries were put on a 24-hour-a-day, seven-days...