Word: laurents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...words: "It is indeed a great honor and a very heavy responsibility to be selected to lead a great national party." His responsibility will be greater than that. This fall, when Mackenzie King gives up the Prime Minister's job he has held for 21 years, Louis St. Laurent will take that...
...stage with other Liberal bigwigs, dapper Louis St. Laurent, 66, Secretary of State for External Affairs, nervously fingered his bristly mustache. He was Mr. King's man and the convention's almost certain choice. In a nearby box sat chic, grey-haired Madame St. Laurent. As the ballots were counted, eager supporters kept rushing up to whisper to her: "Très, Très, Très bon." Each time she answered: "Attendez." They did not have to wait long for the formal announcement: St. Laurent on the first ballot with 848 votes...
...Headquarters Needed. Louis St. Laurent was a topnotch Quebec lawyer and political novice when he was picked by Mr. King in 1941 for the Justice Ministry. His dignity, sincerity and all-round ability soon won him a national reputation as a statesman...
Western Hospitality. Balloting for the leadership came last on the program, and by that time most of the opposition to Louis St. Laurent had faded away. After playing coy for two days, Nova Scotia Premier Angus L. Macdonald withdrew. Health Minister Paul Martin reluctantly got on the St. Laurent bandwagon. The Peck's Bad Boy of the Liberal Party, onetime Air Minister Charles Gavan ("Chubby") Power, never had a chance, and wound up with just 56 votes...
...Liberals figure that in the end, Louis St. Laurent will be their best salesman. He is respected in Quebec (where the Liberal Party has been overwhelmed by the Union Nationale), admired elsewhere as a man who combines all that is best in French and English-speaking Canada. He symbolizes the unity which his nomination speech emphasized. For Louis St. Laurent, whose father was a French Canadian merchant and whose mother was first generation Irish, that is not hard. It is often said that when he was young, he never even knew that there were two official languages in Canada...