Word: meighen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...full throated as a singing thrush. Aside from such physical distinc- tion Mr. Bennett is among the most distinguished of Canadian barristers, and was Minister of Finance in the last Conservative Cabinet, which fell (TIME, Oct. 4, 1926) with such emphasis that the then Conservative Premier, veteran statesman Arthur Meighen, had to be replaced as leader of his party. He was replaced, last October, after almost a year of diligent seeking, by the election of Barrister Ben- nett as Conservative Leader...
Premier Arthur Meighen of Canada, his party (Conservative) defeated at the polls (TIME, Sept. 27), quietly handed the resignation of his Cabinet to Governor General Baron Byng. The Baron was preparing to return to England last week and scarcely tarried longer than it took to call to the Premiership William Lyon Mackenzie King, leader of the victorious Liberals...
Significance. Premier Meighen's defeat was deemed so abysmal last week that many Conservatives hinted he should resign his leadership of the Conservative Party...
...stampeded, Mr. Meighen took no such precipitant action last week, but issued a brief statement promising that his Cabinet would resign at once...
...notable coincidence his successful Liberal opponent was E. A. McPherson, once Mr. Meighen's partner...