Word: wilfrid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Toronto's late sage, sprightly Sir William Mulock, who steered William Lyon Mackenzie King into politics. In 1900, he made young Harvardman King his Deputy Minister of Labor. Sir William introduced King to Sir Wilfrid Laurier, thus paved the way for King to become the Liberal Party's leader and Prime Minister after Sir Wilfrid died. Last week old Sir William, dead these two months, reached out a friendly hand again...
They reacted vigorously. Air Minister Charles Gavan Power, a shrewd Quebec politician and one of the ablest Cabinet Ministers, submitted his resignation at once. Four French-speaking Liberals (Jean-François Pouliot, Wilfrid LaCroix, Charles E. Parent, Maurice Bourget), strode across the floor to join the Opposition. M. LaCroix cried: "Trahison!" (Treason!) at Mr. King as he went...
Said the Rev. Wilfrid R. Johnson of Truro: "People in these days 'pass away' or 'reach port.' They do not die. Sentimentality is spreading and it is encouraged by the action of scattering of ashes. . . . People will give extraordinary directions about the taking of their ashes to a particular spot or out to sea. ... It should be our duty to take a firm stand. . . . We are not called upon to bless popular practices...
...miles behind the temper of the British people. It came little nearer to satisfying the House, including a sizable number of Churchill Conservatives. Forty Tories, led by handsome Viscount Hinchingbrooke M.P., demanded that a Ministry of Social Security be established at once. Liberal insurgents headed by gaunt, good Wilfrid Roberts similarly wanted a new ministry and "earliest possible legislation." Angry Laborites denounced the Government's policy, urged "reconsideration of that policy with a view to the early implementation of the Plan...
...when he broke through at El Alamein, trucks of General Sir Wilfrid Lindsell's service of supply had poured westward in a vast caravan. Cannonading was still audible when the white-gloved soldier-policemen waved them along the Road. For days an almost solid line of vehicles packed the highway-perhaps 100,000 motor vehicles-from El Alamein to Tobruk. (Comparable distance: New York to Buffalo...