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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Best Choice. St. Laurent moved into the cabinet like a veteran, applied his quick, logical and incisive lawyer's mind to every problem that came his way. As early as 1943, Mackenzie King told intimates that St. Laurent was the best choice to succeed him as head of the government. When King, after 21 years as Prime Minister, stepped down last November, St. Laurent moved into his office in the East Block of the Parliament Buildings...
Like every Canadian Prime Minister, St. Laurent faces the problem of bridging the gulf between English and French. His own French-Irish background, his perfect bilingualism, have already contributed a lot toward bringing French-and English-speaking Canada closer. He himself never uses the term "French Canadian"; his phrase is "French-speaking Canadians." But wise Politician St. Laurent knows that French-speaking Canada can not be brushed off with symbols and phrases. He has been methodically building up French Canadian representation in the civil service, where it had fallen well below the 2-to-1 ratio of Canada's English...
Bitter Choice. Overshadowing this historic problem is the urgently pressing one of Canada's trade crisis. If the Washington talks do not produce healing prescriptions, St. Laurent must administer some bitter doses from his own medicine closet. He might even have to stop all but the most essential U.S. imports to Canada and let Canada live as best she could on her own production and high-priced overseas imports. That course for years to come would deny to Canadians such items as U.S.-made cars and clothes, U.S.-grown citrus fruit, Hollywood movies. Canada would save U.S. dollars...
Hair on the Chest. Singing so that back-row listeners could actually heaf was another problem. But this season plenty of top-rankers were on hand to try. On the nights when the Metropolitan Opera's Ferruccio Tagliavini sang Tosca and Lucia di Lammermoor, there were few empty seats; fans gladly paid double prices to hear once-barred (for alleged collaboration) Tenor Beniamino Gigli sing the operatic twins "Cav" and "Pag" (Cavalleria Rusticana and I Pagliacci) with popular Soprano Maria Caniglia and Baritone Tito Gobbi. Even 60-year-old Tenor Tito Schipa was on hand...
...problem was that Lustron needed an additional $14.5 million. But with that, most of RFC's allotment would be spent, and even then Lustron's success was uncertain. If RFC refused the new loan, the $37.5 million lent was down the drain. While RFC waited for a suggestion from Congress, Lustron made some savings. It laid off 600 workers, partly because it had some 400 houses on hand and wanted to sell them before producing any more...