Word: wilfrid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Prime Minister, St. Laurent follows a rigid routine. By 9:35 a.m. he is at his desk, once the desk of Sir Wilfrid Laurier, Canada's only other French Canadian Prime Minister (1896-1911). At lunchtime, he usually walks across the street alone (he has no bodyguard) to the staid and stark Rideau Club, where he customarily sits with other cabinet members at the "Ministers' Table." After lunch, he is in his office until about 6:30. Except on the hottest days St. Laurent works with his coat on. It is an unwritten rule that the 44 members...
...with a trace of pride: "I know nothing of politics or politicians." The boast was not entirely true. As a boy, he worked as a part-time clerk in his father's general store in the Quebec village of Compton (pop. 1,000). Those were the days when Sir Wilfrid Laurier was leader of the Liberal Party. Young Louis lent an ear to all the hot & heavy political talk around the cracker barrel, and was an ardent Laurier Liberal from the start...
...shipped to Canada and began to pick up jobs in work gangs. With one gang, in 1911, he illegally entered the U.S. He worked on railroads, on farms, in brickyards, in steel mills. For a while he taught French in Chicago. And everywhere he went, he studied-Jesuit Educator Wilfrid Parsons once called him "the best-read man I have ever...
...Tory victory presented a striking parallel to another Quebec upset. In November 1910, when a Liberal government had been in power for 14 years, the Drummond-Arthabaska constituency heralded the end of an era by giving the Tories a surprise victory. Next year, the Liberal government of Sir Wilfrid Laurier was swept from office...
...Harry Truman, autographed "To Louis St. Laurent," had been taken off the walnut, table-type desk and was half-hidden on a shelf. Mackenzie King sat again in his stuffed blue swivel chair and rested his feet on the worn, carpeted footstool inherited from his predecessor and friend, Sir Wilfrid Laurier...