Word: laurier
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Flinty old John Diefenbaker, 71, likes to parry any suggestion that he should step down as leader of Canada's Progressive Conservative Party with a Churchillian thrust: "I'm not going till the pub closes." Last week, as the party gathered in Ottawa's Chateau Laurier for its regular convention, Tory dissidents were trying their best to close...
...meant to avoid an embarrassing power struggle during Canada's centennial celebrations next year. Diefenbaker was so outraged by the vote that he refused to make his scheduled speech at the conference's closing dinner. As a result, the dinner itself was canceled, leaving the Chateau Laurier with 65 roasted turkeys and no one to eat them...
...vote of confidence. His style was undoubtedly cramped by the fact that his former Transport Minister, George Hees, a gregarious Torontonian who at first indignantly disclaimed any acquaintance with the blonde, now conceded that he might have lunched with her at Ottawa's Château Laurier after all. In any case, he added emphatically, what they discussed was no affair of state...