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...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...
...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...
...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...
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...