Word: meighen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...vain Conservatives pointed out that Baron Byng acted within his rights. Mr. King, defeated in the House of Commons, was forced to resign as Premier and was succeeded by Conservative Premier Arthur Meighen (TiME, July 12). The Liberals swiftly retorted that when Premier Meighen "advised" the Governor General to dissolve Parliament (TIME, July 12) Baron Byng complied at once...
Thus an issue was created by the Liberals in which it was made to seem that Canada's cherished "Dominion status" was being threatened by "the Crown and the Tories." This essentially spurious argument was rhetorically strengthened by recalling that it was Mr. Meighen who drafted the Military Service Act of 1917 under which Canadians were conscripted and sent willy-nilly to fight for His Majesty George...
...Meighen's Fall. So badly did the Conservatives fare last week that Premier Meighen was personally defeated for his parliamentary seat in the very constituency which first sent him to the Commons (1908), Portage La Prairie, Manitoba...
...Premier Meighen did not resign, declared his intention of continuing to head the Government ad interim until next September, when a general election will be held...
...Countryman King resigned as Premier, he sought Lord Byng and advised the dissolution of Parliament, which would have caused the election to be held under Liberal auspices. The Governor General refused somewhat peremptorily to order dissolution and Premier King resigned forthwith. On the contrary, when suave, aristocratic, moneyed Premier Meighen approached Baron Byng with a request for dissolution last week it was granted instanter -thereby putting the electoral machinery in the hands of Conservatives. Though Lord Byng acted within his legal rights, custom virtually obligated him to follow the original "advice" of Premier King. Unquestionably the efforts of Mr. King...