Word: premieres
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from public life! There is no chance of my changing my mind." However, when the remaining kidney which had thus sent the Hon. Mitchell ("Mitch") Frederick Hepburn flying so suddenly south was cured, he rejoiced with gusto that he had never, even in his most discouraged hours, resigned as Premier of Ontario and with whoops of redoubled vigor tore back to Toronto...
Last week "Mitch" Hepburn had decided to jerk himself up by mighty tugs at the provincial bootstraps of Ontario to the Premiership of all Canada. As a build-up for this, the Premier had deliberately provoked a provincial election which he need never have to fight and was hell-bent to win it Oct. 6. With chances heavily favoring "Mitch," last week Canadian wiseacres agreed that a victory for Liberal Premier Hepburn must severely shake the position and prestige of Canada's Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King. Although both are still nominally Liberals, Hepburn and King have broken...
...since all the strike leaders by this time were so affiliated, they signed in such fashion as to put after their names labor union titles like "Secretary" or "President" but nowhere mentioned what body or affiliate of C.I. O. they represented. On the face of things, Premier Hepburn had used a sledgehammer to squash a gnat, effectively but with ludicrous melodramatics...
...they think, that "Mitch" tried to "git his fist in fust" at Oshawa. Finally, since Canada's Prime Minister Mackenzie King, fearing to antagonize Labor, has frowned upon the strident demands of "Mitch" that C. I. O. agents be excluded from Canada as "foreign agitators," Ontario's Premier smells an opportunity to attract to himself nationwide support and contributions from the more prosperous class of Canadians, including the farmers of Ontario who in voting strength still outnumber (and distrust) its factory workers...
...saying frankly, "I owe my election to ladies, Liberals and Labor!" In those days he was blatantly the proletariat's friend. In 1930 at 34 years of age, Mr. Hepburn was elected Provincial Leader of the Liberal Party, and just four years later he was swept in as Premier of Ontario in the Liberal landslide...