Word: laurier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week a reporter went to call on Canada's Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King at his three-story brick house at 335 Laurier Ave. East, Ottawa. The housekeeper took him to the tiny elevator, pushed the button for the third floor...
...inspired by his grandfather, was not confined to theory. In 1897 he aroused Toronto with his discovery that women were sewing uniforms for Canadian letter carriers for 3? an hour while Government subcontractors made 100% profits. As a consequence, Canada's great French Canadian Prime Minister, Sir Wilfrid Laurier, asked King to become deputy minister of labor. King passed up a chance to teach at Harvard, and went to Ottawa...
...enough to unseat Prime Minister King, permit formation of a Progressive Conservative Government. A historical precedent buttressed this hope: a similar deal had worked in 1911, when Conservatives and Quebec Nationalists, though differing on basic policies, had united to defeat Canada's late, great Prime Minister Sir Wilfred Laurier...
Precisely at 9 p.m., the Dominion-wide network of the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. tied into station CBO, in Ottawa's Chateau Laurier. There, in ail armchair at a desk, sat Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King, facing two microphones. He was stripped for action-coat and vest unbuttoned, tie and detachable collar removed (later he spruced up for photographers). For 24 minutes he read from a 4,000-word manuscript, now & then gesturing with his right fast. At countless radios, the people listened...
Even as Prime Minister King spoke, on the seventh floor of Ottawa's Chateau Laurier (see above), his hope of avoiding wartime political controversy went glimmering. Down in a gilded ballroom on the first floor, National Tory Leader John Bracken was addressing a Party convention. Some 500 Tories, banquet-fed on roast beef and raspberry roll, heard Bracken roar a familiar Tory charge: "inadequacy of [Army] reinforcements...