Word: wilfrid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...event of some consequence in Canada's history that young Willie King decided that night to switch to government service. Before he had been on the job many months, his skill as an executive and organizer caught the eye of Prime Minister Sir Wilfrid Laurier. Within nine years he moved out of the Civil Service and into Laurier's cabinet as Minister of Labor. When Laurier died in 1919, King took over as head of the Liberal Party...