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...people were in a mood of leave-well-enough-alone. Hardly had the ballot-counting started in the Maritimes before it was evident that Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King would come out on top again. In politically potent Quebec, the Liberal Party's victory reached landslide proportions. Then Ontario, by not voting against the 70-year-old Prime Minister to the extent anticipated, made it a sure thing. Final returns, pouring in from the western provinces, simply decided the question of how really conclusive the victory would...
Would the voters reward with another term the Government that had carried Canada successfully (though not smoothly) through the war? In that case, the Liberal Party of William Lyon Mackenzie King, five-term Prime Minister, would...
Newsmen traveling with Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King last week put their heads together, came up with a composite guess on how the June 11 election would turn out: 116 seats (7 short of a clear majority) for the Liberals, 56 for the socialist CCF, 47 seats for the Progressive Conservatives, the balance (26) scattered...
...Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King stated last week that 30,000 Canadian ground troops, in addition to air and navy forces, would be sent to the Pacific...
...picture lacks, overall, a sense of what to emphasize and what to relax about - notably in its failure to make you constantly feel, or see enough of, the cavernous menace of the empty, busy house next door. There are, however, some flashes of really frightening evil in young Richard Lyon, and Gail Russell has a gift for conveying the shyly spirited, awkwardly exciting qualities proper to a beautiful governess who doesn't quite know her place...