Word: lyon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...slumber Canada's opposition party turned over in its sleep last week and threatened to wake up and scrap. The Conservatives chose a new Party leader, a downright man with a low opinion of Canada's war policies. He will have the opportunity of pushing William Lyon Mackenzie King off the narrowing plank on which the Liberal Prime Minister has been teetering since war began...
After one of the most tense weeks of his public life, President Roosevelt hurried to Hyde Park, to rest, to vote, to confer with Canada's Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King. At 5 o'clock on a rainy morning the Prime Minister's private car was left on a Poughkeepsie siding. Attached to it was the private car of Crown Princess Juliana of The Netherlands and the Dutch East Indies. Said the Prime Minister, asked what he would discuss with the President: Everything...
...reason for the upset was not far to seek. It went back to last winter, when Patullo and the Premiers of the other eight Provinces journeyed to Ottawa at the invitation of Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King. The Prime Minister wanted the Premiers to agree to a more rational economic setup for the Dominion, to reconstruct and centralize tax powers. Because his free-spending administration did not want to give up a smidgen of tax power, Premier Patullo attacked the plan. With the aid of Ontario's windy Mitch Hepburn and Alberta's William ("Bible Bill") Aberhart...
FranÇois Darlan began a new series of talks with the Nazis. While Germany and France were still technically at war, they were about to exchange envoys, the Nazis sending consuls not only to Paris, but to Lyon and Marseille as well. And Marshal Henri Philippe Petain finally did something about the men whom Vichy blames for France's defeat-General Maurice Gustave Gamelin, onetime Premiers Edouard Daladier, Leon Blum and Paul Reynaud, former Minister of the Interior Georges Mandel. The Marshal ordered them moved from various jails to a new jail in the Pyrenees fort...
...above pre-war levels. (U.S. rises 7% and 18% in the same period.) Minister Ilsley and his special board of consulting economists had an eye out for just such inflationary storm warnings, had a storm cellar ready. This month they laid their economic plans before Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King and his full Cabinet...