Word: lyon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...haired Dr. Richard Monohan scurried around Ontario's Glengarry riding, made dozens of speeches promising everyone "$100 a month when you are 55." Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King, running for election because he needed a seat in the House of Commons (TIME, July 2), did not bother to campaign at all. Last week Mr. King won. The score...
...suburb of Ottawa. He will represent King George VI in Canada, and like the King, will act only on the advice of the Government. He will be expected to remain aloof from politics. Quiet, self-effacing Field Marshal Alexander was reported to be the choice of Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King...
...Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King was going to meet opposition after all. Dr. Richard Monahan, 64, a lean, red-haired man with an un-Canadian impulse to throw away $1,000, announced that he would run in the Glengarry, Ont. by-election called for Aug. 6 to give Mr. King a seat in Parliament...
Sixty would be Yardlings turned up at New Lecture Hall at the appointed hour, 8 'o clock in the evening. When nothing came off, 25 of the disappointed lads decided to gain revenge on Harvey Lyon '49, listed on the poster as "student assistant" to "Dean Kronum," fictitious signee to the poster; but Lyon, too, it appears, was a victim of the successful gagster...
Like millions of his fellow Canadians. William Lyon Mackenzie King spent the first days of last week waiting to learn whether he would win or lose in his own constituency of Prince Albert, Saskatchewan. When the soldier votes were finally counted,* the Prime Minister had been beaten by socialist CCFer E. L. Bowerman. What made the dose doubly hard for King to take: his defeat was by a piddling 129 votes (out of 19,341 votes cast); Bowerman was running for public office for the first time...