Word: smith
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Watt's committee, will include John McC. Howison '47, of Dunster House and Bogata, Texas; Henry McN. Jones '45, of Adams House and New York City; and Lloyd S. Gilmour '49, of Straus Hall and Glen Head, Long Island, Harold W. Smith '44 and Kingsley Ervin, Jr. '45, presidents of the Advocate in 1942 and 1943 respectively, will act as advisers to the committee...
...party's monthly free half-hour on CBC last week, Progressive-Conservative M.P. Arthur LeRoy Smith of Calgary issued an invitation: "I think the extreme left wing of the Liberals should join the socialists [CCF]. That is really where they belong. And I think the Liberals of the right should join with our party...
...Smith, no leader in top Tory councils, was just shooting the political breeze. But his suggestion was not at all fantastic. No first-rate Liberal Party leader is in sight to take the place of 72-year-old Mackenzie King when he retires or dies, and many politicos see the prospect of a breakup when the party loses the man who has directed it since...
Could he do it? Like Art Smith, the Ottawa Citizen last week thought it would be the other way around. The anti-CCF Citizen noted the swing to socialism in Great Britain and elsewhere in the world, and candidly said: "Canada has already witnessed the birth and steady growth of its own social democratic party, the CCF." As the trend continues, the Citizen said, one or the other of the older parties will either disappear or will coalesce. Then the CCF "will assume ... its position as the 'other' major political party in Canada...
...Willmott Harsant Lewis, the wise and witty U.S. correspondent of the London Times, was waiting for a spent and deadlocked Democratic convention to make up its mind between McAdoo and Smith. To a fellow newsman he remarked: "I've been around here so long I'm impinging on eternity." By last week his crack (like many he had minted) had become legendary among Washington correspondents, and Sir Bill, willing to impinge but not to intrude upon eternity, was getting ready to retire (at 69) from a career no living newsman could match...