Word: primed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...where a business slump has thrown more men out of work than in any other year since World War II-Canadians for the second time in a year are about to choose a new government. Bidding for a stronger mandate, after only nine months in office, is Tory Prime Minister John George Diefenbaker, 62. His leading challenger in the March 31 election: Liberal Leader Lester Bowles ("Mike") Pearson, 60, longtime Secretary of State for External Affairs in a government that ruled Canada for 22 years up to last June...
Professor in Politics. Liberal Pearson, history professor turned politician, winner of a 1957 Nobel Peace Prize, makes no effort to match the Prime Minister's give-'em-hell speeches. In matter-of-fact tones, he maintains that the recession would have overtaken any government in power, calls for an immediate $400 million tax cut-rather than a slow-motion public-works plan-to pep up the economy...
...which last year elected only nine Tories among its 75 M.P.s. In this aim, he seems to have the quiet cooperation of Quebec's powerful Premier Maurice Duplessis, who never liked the Liberals even when they were led by French Canada's own Louis St. Laurent, former Prime Minister, who retired in January...
Probable winner of the election: the mildly socialist West Indies Federal Labor Party, which should win at least 26 of the 45 seats and organize the government. Probable Prime Minister: Oxford-educated Lawyer Sir Grantley Herbert Adams, 59, one of the pioneer federationists and founders of the F.L.P., now Premier of Barbados...
...little income (e.g., 1,382 people per sq. mi. in Barbados have a per-capita income of $239 a year)-dampened fiery nationalist expectations of years past. Observers predicted only a 40-60% turnout of eligible voters, and the Jamaica Times called the campaign "dreary." Admitted Probable Prime Minister Adams: "The federal government is going to be weak with a chicken-feed budget...