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...Liberals used the House opening as an occasion for a nationwide party rally. Twenty delegates from each of the nine provinces crowded into Ottawa's Château Laurier for an executive meeting of the National Liberal Federation. Before them, Leader St. Laurent shook off some of his reserve. "Our opponents will huff and they will puff," he said, "but . . . they will not blow this country off the course which our party and its leaders have...
...Truman, autographed "To Louis St. Laurent," had been taken off the walnut, table-type desk and was half-hidden on a shelf. Mackenzie King sat again in his stuffed blue swivel chair and rested his feet on the worn, carpeted footstool inherited from his predecessor and friend, Sir Wilfrid Laurier...
...made Canada a nation, was driven to Rideau Hall, residence of Governor-General Viscount Alexander of Tunis. There he handed in his resignation. Liberal Leader Louis St. Laurent was named to take his place. Then Mackenzie King rode home with his memories to the peace & sepulchral quiet of cavernous Laurier House...
...convention time, only a few of Drew's Bay Street backers were around his headquarters in the Chateau Laurier, and fewer still were at the Coliseum. The tall, well-tailored figure of Edward William Bickle, an investment broker and Drew's best friend, caught a bit of the limelight. Notably out of the limelight was another Drew crony and constant adviser, George McCullagh. One of the most powerful Canadian publishers (the Toronto Globe & Mail), McCullagh stayed away from Ottawa lest he scare off Drew supporters who still leaned a bit toward John Bracken's "ordinary man" position...
Chipper Minister of Agriculture Jimmy Gardiner was the only one who stayed in the fight to the end. All through the convention his 50 henchmen worked to collar support for him, kept telling themselves that "anything could happen." From his Chateau Laurier suite Jimmy Gardiner extended western hospitality to all comers, nipped down to the lobby at strategic moments. He threw a cocktail party for the press, a luncheon for western delegates. Gardiner got 323 votes. Said he sadly: "This isn't like an ordinary election campaign where you can take your opponent apart...