Word: laurents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...scene was the ballroom of the Chateau Frontenac in Quebec, the province without whose support no party can expect to win in Canada. The occasion: a dinner honoring External Affairs Minister (and Justice Minister) Louis Stephen St. Laurent, Quebec's top-ranking politician in the Dominion Parliament. While some 800 party big& littlewigs whooped it up from the floor. Prime Minister King, as a gesture to Quebec, spoke ten minutes in French before switching to English. He pleaded with Minister St. Laurent to drop his intentions to retire. (The Minister would probably agree.) Then, after some pats...
Surprised newsmen, with advance copies of the speech before them, saw that the real political punch in the speech had been left undelivered. It was explained that the banquet was behind schedule and that it was about time for Minister St. Laurent to go on the air. For the balance of the P.M.'s speech Canadians were forced to turn to their daily newspapers. There they learned that Mackenzie King had whacked Quebec's politicians, notably Premier Maurice Duplessis and his Union Nationale, which has shown little love for the Liberals...
Last week Henri Laurent, a hardware clerk on Paris' fusty southern edge, unburdened his mind. "Voyez vous," said Laurent, "for five long years I stood here and watched the Boche walking arrogantly around my quarter. In those days I never thought I could ever again have a surfeit of democracy. To get out of bed on Sunday morning and walk to the polling booth does not seem a very heavy price to pay for freedom, but the French people are wearying of the process...
...experts rate the game as a toss-up, Coach James MacDonald refuses to be drawn into any predictions as to the outcome. "These traditional contests never follow the logical forecasting rules," Mac said yesterday. "Past season records often mean next to nothing." HARVARD YALE Harshman g Symington Purinton rfb Laurent, Capt. Merck lfb Keating Mavor rhb Rabinowitz Ogden chb Andrews Blanco, Capt. lhb Hilllard Smith or Cate orf Fergusson Morse lrf Buchanan Potter cf Ford Lazarus lif Hawley Corrigan olf McKenney...
From Washington popular Mike Pearson went back to Ottawa to take Norm Robertson's place. In calling him home, Prime Minister King was giving his new and relatively inexperienced External Affairs Minister Louis Stephen St. Laurent a thoroughly experienced, adept right hand. He was also, significantly, bringing within arm's reach a man whose name has been mentioned as Mr. King's political crown prince...