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...everybody had expected, Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King's Liberal Party won last week's Dominion election hands down. But nobody had expected such a rout as Mackenzie King's enemies suffered. Conservative Leader Robert J. Manion lost his seat, was expected soon to lose his leadership. In Ontario, where blustery Premier Mitchell Hepburn had precipitated the election by knifing his leader in the back (TIME, Feb. 5), the Liberals won 55 seats against 25 for the Conservatives, and Mitch was so discredited that his retirement seemed also in order. Quebec returned Minister of Justice Ernest...
Meanwhile Sumner Welles continued his overshadowed way. Last week when he got to Paris there were 200 mobile guards at the Gare de Lyon, 200 extra plainclothesmen, military motorcyclists to escort him to the Ritz Hotel. The Renault he rode in had steel armor, bulletproof glass, bulletproof tires. Paris correspondents, noting that George VI had received just such elaborate precautions, rushed 50 strong to his first press conference, where polite Sumner Welles reduced them to silence by saying that he could say nothing...
Training schools of the Royal Canadian Air Force hummed with activity. Here was a nation depicted as it went to war in a big way. Mitch shifted uneasily in his chair, growing more annoyed every minute. Suddenly the features of William Lyon Mackenzie King flashed upon the screen as the Prime Minister outlined the Government's large-scale war measures...
Because Yale's strenuous Dr. William Lyon Phelps was one hour and fifteen minutes late for a talk on "The Art of Living" before the Tenafly (N. J.) Women's Club, he got his fee, $200, plus a polite rebuke, by mail. His apology, a $250 check, received and rejected by the club, was last week in the hands of the Tenafly school board to buy books for the library of the school where the lecture was held...
Because Yale's strenuous Dr. William Lyon Phelps was one hour and fifteen minutes late for a talk on "The Art of Living" before the Tenafly (N. J.) Wom en's Club, he got his fee, $200, plus a polite rebuke, by mail. His apology, a $250 check, received and rejected by the club, was last week in the hands of the Tenafly school board to buy books for the library of the school where the lecture was held...