Word: lester
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Congratulations on your clear and straightforward cover article on Canada's 14th Prime Minister, Lester B. Pearson [April 19]. Like most Canadians, I am extremely proud of our new P.M., and it was very gratifying to read your excellent article on his career. It was the first time I have read such flowing words of praise for a Canadian leader in an American publication. In past years, Canadians have felt like the country cousin in the North American continent. Now, under the capable and bold leadership of "Mike" Pearson, we may again be conisdered a hard-working and prosperous...
After nine days of waiting, Lester B. Pearson at last got to wear his formal cutaway to pay the traditional call on Canada's Governor General. He emerged, grinning broadly, to say that he had been asked to form a Liberal government. Until the last minute, no one was quite sure whether Conservative Prime Minister John Diefenbaker, who loves office so much, would go quietly or cling in defeat to the vestiges of power. Even as he prepared for his own call on the Governor General, he fended off reporters. Was his visit for the purpose of resigning? asked...
...itinerant $700-a-year Methodist minister, Pearson likes to say: "We were rich in everything but money." His father, the Rev. Edwin Arthur Pearson, who was known to his congregations as "the baseball-bashing parson," taught his sons baseball, hockey, football, and a firm sense of Methodist duty. Lester also learned something about politics from his maternal grandfather, who lost every time he stood for Parliament...
Pearson switched to the fledgling Royal Flying Corps, where a senior officer looked him over, decided that Lester was "not a very belligerent name for training to be a fighter pilot," and decided to call him Mike. The name lasted; Pearson's flying career did not. On his first solo flight, after just 1½ hours' instruction, he met a high wire in his landing path, tried to lift his skittery DH4 over it, stalled and crashed. Bruised and shaken, Pearson spent a week in hospital. He finished the war as a training instructor in Toronto...
Diefenbaker called another election, and emerged from it with the most lopsided majority in Canadian history. 208 seats to the Liberals' 49. From that campaign. John Diefenbaker developed the theory, which he confidently clung to ever after, that he had an unfaltering political touch and a whammy on Lester Pearson...