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...conscriptionist party had made a secret deal with the anti-conscriptionist "independents" to support 30 of their candidates in Quebec. Behind this incongruous arrangement was the obvious hope that after the election the combined strength of the Progressive Conservatives and the "independents" would be great enough to unseat Prime Minister King, permit formation of a Progressive Conservative Government. A historical precedent buttressed this hope: a similar deal had worked in 1911, when Conservatives and Quebec Nationalists, though differing on basic policies, had united to defeat Canada's late, great Prime Minister Sir Wilfred Laurier...
...hardest fought games of the season, Standish came from behind on Wednesday to unseat the ex-league leaders, Lowell, by the close score of 35 to 34. This game, marked by the steady uphill fight of the Freshmen, throws the Intramural competition wide open, with a chance for any of the top teams to cop the laurels...
During his 25 years in the labor movement, burly, narrow-eyed Joseph S. Fay has often been called a racketeer. But calling Joe Fay names, or trying to unseat him as international vice president of the Union of Operating Engineers, was like blowing peas at an elephant. Sometimes he simply turned his beefy back. Some times, enraged or full of whiskey, he used his fists. Once he slugged the A.F. of L.'s David Dubinsky; another time he kicked in a minor labor leader's cheek bone. But neither taunts, rivals nor the law really bothered...
Last week P.A.C. backed a sure thing, Boston's handsome Mayor Maurice Tobin for the Democratic nomination for Governor in Massachusetts. Tobin won a thumping victory, which proved nothing about P.A.C., but in central Massachusetts P.A.C. lost in its attempt to unseat Congressman Philip J. Philbin. In the labor-conscious state of Washington, most of its candidates came out on top in the Democratic primaries. An active, aggressive left-winger named Hugh de Lacy won out over seven other Democratic candi dates for Congress. In an earlier election, P.A.C. was very helpful to ex-WLB Member Wayne Lyman Morse...
Years & years ago Chicago's Mayor Ed Kelly and its headline-making State's Attorney Tom Courtney, both Democrats, were pals. But for almost a decade of hate, Courtney has vainly tried to unseat Boss Kelly. Only last October, Courtney was "embarrassing" the Mayor with a lurid (though routine) grand jury investigation of police graft and corruption...