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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...
Jittery and wrathful appeared the white-thatched leader of His Majesty's Loyal Opposition, Conservative Robert J. Manion, M.D., whose Irish tongue is as sharp as his surgical knives. Doctor Manion was upset because for several days he had tried in vain to get an advance peep at the Speech-from-the-Throne which Lord Tweedsmuir was to read. Ordinarily the Leader of the Opposition is allowed the courtesy of a peek. This time the Speech had been kept secret by order of its author, Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King. That astute and genial fat man obviously...
...capacity for raising political hell. Mitchell Hepburn rammed through the Ontario Legislature a resolution condemning the Ottawa Government for inefficiency in conducting the war (TIME, Jan. 29). With this Liberal stiletto still quivering between his broad shoulders, Prime Minister King prepared to face the verbal scalpels of Conservative Surgeon Manion...
...week in Parliament. Mr. King's bland refusal to take Conservatives into his Cabinet for the duration of the war offered the opportunity. The accident of Mitch Hepburn's choosing this moment to press an intraparty feud with placid Mr. King merely made the attacks of Conservative Manion more embarrassing...
...Robert J. Manion-Minister of Railways and Canals