Word: pearsons
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...ominous," "hostile," and "disconcertingly painful" in a Harper's Magazine article in which he also referred to U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles as "an unmitigated disaster." Said the Telegram: "To explain to an American that Mr. Hutchison acts as an adviser to [Opposition Leader Lester] Pearson, has little acquaintance with leading figures in the new government at Ottawa, and has long exhibited a deep hatred of Mr. Dulles, hardly offsets the mischief in the article...
Liberal Leader Lester Bowles ("Mike") Pearson cautioned that Diefenbaker's vision might endanger relations with Canada's closest neighbor and best customer, the U.S. But Diefenbaker's speeches, vibrating with evangelical fervor, wrung cheers from Newfoundland fishermen who still use Elizabethan turns of speech, touched off one of melting-pot Winnipeg's wildest political demonstrations. And most surprising, it galvanized French-speaking Liberal Quebec into returning the biggest Tory delegation (50 of 75 seats) it has ever sent to Ottawa...
...election night the issue was never in doubt. Two hours after the polls closed in Ontario and Quebec, Liberal Pearson conceded the Tory victory, then sadly watched it roll westward across the time zones. It left the once-dominant Liberals with 49 seats, reduced the socialist Cooperative Commonwealth Federation to a splinter of 8 seats, totally wiped out of Parliament Western Canada's funny-money Social Credit movement, which held 19 seats in the old House of Commons. Surveying the wreckage of his party's national ambitions, Alberta's Social Credit Premier Ernest Manning offered...
Footnote to History. The germ of Inside Europe was planted in Gunther by Harper's Editor Cass Canfield after IQSI'S Washington Merry-Go-Round, by Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen, created a demand for uninhibited political reporting. In 1934 Gunther reluctantly agreed that he might do a book on Europe's political leaders if Harper's put up what he considered an "impossible" $5,000 advance. He got the advance, slaved over the book at night while working in the Daily News's London bureau. With help, as he acknowledged, from "colleagues...
...first time that either candidate had introduced the delicate and contentious issue of atomic-arms control into the campaign. Tory Prime Minister John Diefenbaker, seemingly holding a solid lead in his bid for a new mandate, ignored the Pearson proposal, went right on talking about domestic affairs. The Gallup poll gave the Tories 56% of the minds-made-up voters, v. 32% for the Liberals...