Word: laurier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years big, jovial, redheaded Paul Tasse, 56, has been the talkative boss barber in Ottawa's Chateau Laurier barbershop. Now he and his wife were celebrating 35 years of marriage. Routhier School's hall was rented for the occasion and bedecked with barber poles. Prime Minister King helped welcome guests. Between homey speeches, an orchestra played selections from Barber of Seville...
...Toronto's late sage, sprightly Sir William Mulock, who steered William Lyon Mackenzie King into politics. In 1900, he made young Harvardman King his Deputy Minister of Labor. Sir William introduced King to Sir Wilfrid Laurier, thus paved the way for King to become the Liberal Party's leader and Prime Minister after Sir Wilfrid died. Last week old Sir William, dead these two months, reached out a friendly hand again...
...most valuable real estate asset also came to him by last will and testament. This is Laurier House, bequeathed in 1921 by Wilfrid Laurier's widow. The Prime Minister uses it as both home and headquarters. A twelve-room, three-story house on Ottawa's Laurier Avenue, it is highceilinged, oak-paneled, about 75 years old. Friends contributed $30,000 for modernization...
...70th birthday last week, Canada's Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King sat down to dinner (oysters and filet mignon) at Ottawa's Chateau Laurier with 40 members of the Parliamentary Press Gallery and their 60 guests. Dinner over, he was presented with a gold card awarding him an Honorary Life Membership in the Press Gallery. Then came the evening's well-kept surprise. A motion was put and carried by a rising vote. The Prime Minister rose, turned to a grey, balding newsman near him at the table...
...description is unfair. Mr. King never intended to be a politician. He gave up law for social science, studied at Hull House under Jane Addams. Sir Wilfred Laurier made him over into a politician. In a tough game Mr. King became as tough as any of them...