Word: gregg
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Candidates: Dewey George Archambault, Jr., Blair Morton Boyd, Jr., John Bertrand Cadigan, Jr., John Edwin Carlson, Jr., Thomas Henry Collins, Walter Coulson, Frederick Deane, Jr., John Morton Dunn, Weston Joseph Durant, Robert Scarborough Erakine, Jr., Allan Sulyard Garon, Charles Nelson Gregg, Jr., Peter Green Harwood, Harry, Peter Haveles...
North Carolina's Governor Robert Gregg Cherry had automobile trouble. His stately, plump black Packard was one of the first cars to be examined under the state's new compulsory-inspection law. It flunked. Faulty lights...
...Brunswick's York-Sunbury riding was one to watch. It would be a gauge of public feeling on such close-to-home issues as the rising cost of living. It was also an election in which the Liberal Government's newly appointed Fisheries Minister Milton Fowler Gregg was seeking his seat in Parliament. Yet York-Sunbury was no Liberal pushover: the Liberals had been able to capture it only twice (1935 and 1945) in 33 years. Furthermore, for the first time in the riding's history, the ambitious young socialist CCF Party, which polled only...
...riding's 29,000 registered voters had a choice of heroes. Gregg was a V.C. winner in World War I, a brigadier in War II. The Tory candidate, Ernest William Sansom, was a War II lieutenant general. The CCF candidate, 24-year-old Douglas MacMurray Young, a student at the University of New Brunswick, was a War II R.C.A.F. corporal...
...victory of Liberal Milton Gregg was a walkaway. Of more significance was the defeat of the Tories. Though they had no trouble finishing second, it was their third defeat in their three most recent tries...