Word: mitch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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 Lapointe in triumph, defeated all the lieutenants of disgruntled ex-Premier Maurice Duplessis who backed Conservative candidates...
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...
That was too much for Mitch. He rushed out, and instructed the Board to ban the film in Ontario until after the election...
...Mitch realized that with the Dominion parliamentary elections coming on March 26, "Canada at War" would do his Cassandra crusade little good. While he continued to rage against the film, accusing MARCH OF TIME of conniving with the Government, Canada at large lost patience with noisy Mitch, and his ban. "Arrant nonsense," snapped the Montreal Star. "It would be difficult to imagine any more puerile or childish action." Actually every country in the world except Soviet Russia and Germany would see the film, and Toronto newspapers republished its dialogue...
Fighting mad over this reaction, Mitch fairly outdid himself by "exposing" on the very next day "a violent disturbance" at the air training centre near St. Thomas, Ont., where he declared several hundred fed-up and disgusted recruits had gone A. W. O. L. The New York Post gave the story front-page prominence, headlining it "Mutiny," and the German radio broadcast it as evidence of disunion in Canada. "I did not mention the word mutiny or the word riot," hedged Mitch. "I said there was a violent disturbance and there was." Norman Rogers, Canadian Minister of Defense, promptly...