Word: lyon
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Canada's Prime Minister threw the weight of his prestige into Grey North's all-important by-election (TIME, Jan. 1; Jan. 15). In a statement addressed to Grey North voters, but directed to all Canada, William Lyon Mackenzie King urged the Ontario riding to elect Liberal Candidate Andrew G. L. McNaughton, National Defense Minister. Should McNaughton be defeated, he strongly implied, Parliament would not meet...
...loves censors, but some-like those at SHAEF-are especially unloved. Said the New York Times's crack Drew Middleton: "The worst [censorship] I have experienced in five years." The OWI's brash George H. Lyon (former Buffalo Times editor) risked a reprimand by calling SHAEF policy "stupid," and was straightway backed up by his boss, Elmer Davis...
Canada's most important by-election campaign in years got under way in the Ontario riding of Grey North. There a member of Parliament would be chosen Feb. 5. There the political destiny of Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King might be at stake. The political usefulness of National Defense Minister Andrew G. L. McNaughton, the Liberal candidate, certainly...
...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...
Portly, senatorial George Lyon, veteran newspaper editor and OWI man, supported them. Lyon rumbled: "SHAEF's policy on this matter is stupid. . . . Everybody across hell and 40 acres knows what's going on. The American people are entitled to know...