Word: lyon
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Andy McNaughton, named National Defense Minister when Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King needed a national figure to pull him through the great conscription crisis (TIME, Nov. 13), now needed a seat in Parliament. Without it, he could not be a Cabinet member. But last week the prospect that he would win his seat looked neither safe nor sure...
Major (no title) James Coldwell, leader of the CCF, usually sees eye-to-eye with Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King on foreign policy. In New York City last week Socialist Coldwell voiced a Canadian criticism of the Dumbarton Oaks formula for a world security league. The stronger secondary nations, like Canada, said Mr. Coldwell, should have better representation on the proposed world council...
...friend of Franklin Delano Roosevelt stepped down last week to let a younger man step up. On his 75th birthday, kindly, white-haired Leighton Goldie McCarthy resigned as Canada's Ambassador to the U.S. To his post Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King promptly appointed McCarthy's assistant, Lester Bowles Pearson, O.B.E., one of the ablest men in Canada's small but expert foreign service...
...70th birthday last week, Canada's Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King sat down to dinner (oysters and filet mignon) at Ottawa's Chateau Laurier with 40 members of the Parliamentary Press Gallery and their 60 guests. Dinner over, he was presented with a gold card awarding him an Honorary Life Membership in the Press Gallery. Then came the evening's well-kept surprise. A motion was put and carried by a rising vote. The Prime Minister rose, turned to a grey, balding newsman near him at the table...
...House of Commons, members fidgeted. They sat late, for they were going home for Christmas and they wanted to be off. Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King wound up his speech: "No succor could come to the enemy equal to that he will receive from anything that goes to show that a Parliament in ... the British Commonwealth ... is not united in support of its fighting men. . . ." Then (1:20 a.m.) the black-robed clerk finally rose, polled the members, bowed to the Speaker's chair and announced: "Ayes 143, Nays...