Word: western
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...days, with Mackenzie King watching every move, the resolutions committee hammered away at a party platform. The convention dodged such issues as inflation and Communism. To please the seven Maritime and western provinces, it plumped for a Royal Commission on freight rates. In an assertion of Canadian nationalism, it called for abolition of appeals to the Privy Council in London. It favored a defensive union with the U.S. and Western Europe. (Almost unnoticed, young Liberals slipped through a resolution amendment favoring "union security" and calling on the government to enforce the labor code. Snapped big, bumbling Labor Minister Humphrey Mitchell...
...Western Hospitality. Balloting for the leadership came last on the program, and by that time most of the opposition to Louis St. Laurent had faded away. After playing coy for two days, Nova Scotia Premier Angus L. Macdonald withdrew. Health Minister Paul Martin reluctantly got on the St. Laurent bandwagon. The Peck's Bad Boy of the Liberal Party, onetime Air Minister Charles Gavan ("Chubby") Power, never had a chance, and wound up with just 56 votes...
Chipper Minister of Agriculture Jimmy Gardiner was the only one who stayed in the fight to the end. All through the convention his 50 henchmen worked to collar support for him, kept telling themselves that "anything could happen." From his Chateau Laurier suite Jimmy Gardiner extended western hospitality to all comers, nipped down to the lobby at strategic moments. He threw a cocktail party for the press, a luncheon for western delegates. Gardiner got 323 votes. Said he sadly: "This isn't like an ordinary election campaign where you can take your opponent apart...
...days before the Western Open, Ben Hogan played a practice round at Buffalo's Brookfield Country Club. After measuring the power of the opposition, and his own fatigue after 18 tournaments in 1948, he said gloomily, "This one I don't expect...
...Jones trimmed Al Espinosa by 23 strokes in a 36-hole playoff in the 1929 National Open. Oliver joined the Hogan rooters, cheerfully shouted "Get in!" at Hogan's putts. They did, and Hogan became the first man ever to win the National Open, the P.G.A. and the Western Open in one season...