Word: meighen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Liberal Premier King kept his Cabinet going on the slenderest of majorities until his defeat by one ballot and resignation a fortnight ago. (TIME, July 5.) Last week Conservative leader Arthur Meighen stepped confidently into the Premiership. Within 72 hours he, too, suffered defeat. Lest this teetering and tottering continue indefinitely, Governor General Baron Byng of Vimy promptly dissolved the Canadian House of Commons...
...last year's "freak" Canadian election (TIME, Nov 9) Premier King's 101 Liberal supporters, augmented by a perpetually fluctuating contingent of the 25 Progressives, have barely sufficed him to maintain a Parliamentary majority against the 116 conservative, M. P.'s led by former Premier Arthur Meighen...
Conservative Meighen, who was succeeded by Liberal King in 1921, was expected to come again into his innings...
...about it." Thus Mr. F. C. Hears, seasoned staff correspondent of the famed Toronto Globe, publicly admitted the bewilderment of the gentlemen of the press after five days of impassioned debate by members of the Canadian House of Representatives upon the "Want of Confidence" motion introduced by Conservative Leader Meighen (TIME, Jan. 18) for the purpose of forcing the Government of Liberal Leader Premier King to resign...
Throughout the week Mr. Meighen and all but one* of the 116 Conservatives loudly called attention to the fact that, as the result of Canada's recent "freak election" (TIME, Nov. 9), Premier King can muster only 101 Liberals, thus leaving the Government, theoretically, without a majority. The Liberals, on the other hand, put on a bold and blustering front, intended to give the impression that they were sure of being supported by the 27 minority party members: 24 Progressives, 2 Laborites, and 1 Independent, that fire-eating gaffer, the Hon. Henri Bourassa of Quebec, now again returned to Parliament...