Word: toronto
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Over Ottawa last week hung an air of crisis. On Parliament Hill newsmen heard rumors that an election might be called, that some Cabinet members had threatened to resign, that there would be a special session of Parliament. Said Toronto's Government-baiting Globe and Mail: "The [Army] manpower crisis . . . is moving rapidly to its climax. All the evidence is that this time settlement cannot be delayed. . . ." Not everything was rumor. Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King had called all 21 members of his Cabinet into special session. One member was summoned all the way from Vancouver...
Grounds. In Toronto, absolute judgments were granted in the divorce appeals of Rows v. Rows and Loveless v. Loveless...
...Toronto last week canny Finance Minister James Lorimer Ilsley did what he has seldom done-went out on a limb. He told Canadians there would be jobs for all after the war in Europe ends...
Died. Sir William Mulock, 101, eldest of Canada's elder statesmen; in Toronto. In 1906, he dissuaded a young Harvard graduate from a teaching career, thus introduced William Lyon Mackenzie King to Canadian politics. Sir William spent 23 years in politics, 31 years on the Ontario bench, 20 years as Chancellor of the University of Toronto...
...fixed to stay in the Army for good. He studied at the Staff College at Camberley in England, got a duty tour at the Imperial War Office, went back to Canada and taught tactics where he had learned them, at Kingston. In 1916 he had married a handsome Toronto girl in London. They have a married daughter, and a 21-year-old son, Peter, who is a lieutenant with the Canadians in Italy. Crerar pere was in Italy when he got the call to replace McNaughton in London. He could not tell Peter he was leaving, but-he admitted...