Word: pearsons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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London's Lazard Bros. & Co. But the company's operational boss is brilliant Engineer James D. Pearson. 54, and of its 13 directors, ten hold engineering degrees...
Hungry for an election that he is confident would make him Prime Minister. Liberal Leader Lester Pearson led off with the longest speech of his parliamentary career (three hours and five minutes) and closed it with the shortest (18 words) no-confidence motion in Parliament's history. He accused the Conservatives of "a major political fraud" in hiding last June's critical run on Canada's foreign-exchange reserves until the election was safely over, indicted the government's tight-money austerity program as the wrong cure for the country's economic ailments. Diefenbaker retorted...
...laws of Communist meteorology, when Soviet-Yugoslav relations get warmer, Soviet-Chinese relations automatically grow more turbulent. Last week the Red Chinese and their distant Albanian allies renewed their blistering criticism of Tito and that "modern revisionist," Khrushchev. Peking was especially angry over Tito's interview with Columnist Pearson, in which Tito called the Chinese warmongers. Rising to Peking's defense, the Albanians lashed out at Khrushchev for agreeing to sell MIG jet fighters to India, for possible use against "innocent" Chinese...
Playing for Time. The Diefenbaker government, bidding for time to restore its shattered fortunes, is determined to govern as long as the House will have it-or at least until John Diefenbaker senses an advantageous issue on which to go to the country. Nobel Prizewinner Lester B. Pearson's opposition Liberals, controlling 100 seats and sensing that their time is ripe, are equally keen to bring the Tories down for an election, if possible before Christmas. The government's life thus hangs by the thread of approval of two minor parties that hold the tender balance of power...
...hungry opposition immediately attacked the government's program. Pearson called it "disappointing and inadequate," called on the two minor parties to support a Liberal motion of no-confidence in the government this week. They in turn denounced the legislative agenda as vigorously as Pearson, suggesting that while they might not join him this week, they will when they think the time is ripe...