Word: wilfrid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...means a one-way deal. Said Britain's Sir Wilfrid Griffin Eady, who spent a month in Ottawa negotiating the loan: almost all the money will be spent in Canada, principally on foods and manufactured goods. Knowing that, practically all Canadians approved the loan; some thought its terms could even have been more generous...
...misery inspired by his grandfather, was not confined to theory. In 1897 he aroused Toronto with his discovery that women were sewing uniforms for Canadian letter carriers for 3? an hour while Government subcontractors made 100% profits. As a consequence, Canada's great French Canadian Prime Minister, Sir Wilfrid Laurier, asked King to become deputy minister of labor. King passed up a chance to teach at Harvard, and went to Ottawa...
...Montreal last week, grey-haired Michael Gordon Fulker, 41, sat at a three-minute hearing in the Court of King's Bench, heard the Crown say it had no evidence to offer, listened attentively as Justice Wilfrid Lazure solemnly added: "You have suffered enough...
Commentator Wilfrid von Oven: "The enemy is knocking at the door of Berlin. . . . The defenders at this point are still in a state of improvisation. Nobody should lose his head when he sees tanks appear...
...most valuable real estate asset also came to him by last will and testament. This is Laurier House, bequeathed in 1921 by Wilfrid Laurier's widow. The Prime Minister uses it as both home and headquarters. A twelve-room, three-story house on Ottawa's Laurier Avenue, it is highceilinged, oak-paneled, about 75 years old. Friends contributed $30,000 for modernization...