Richard bedford bennett biography of albert

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It was a brilliant appointment; Bennett was unerring in his judgement of able financial men. As she was packing up her things in the Château Laurier suite where she and R. B. Jacques Dumont, “Méditation pour jeunes politiques,” L’Action française (Montréal), 17 (1927): 28–40. Aitken], Lord Beaverbrook, Friends: sixty years of intimate personal relations with Richard Bedford Bennett . . . (London and Toronto, 1959).

The Liberals really had no policy; they expected the depression would defeat Bennett and the depression did exactly that.

Seats in the House of Commons were quite another matter: the Liberals took 173, the Conservatives 40, and the other parties 32. Then the sudden death of his mother, whom he had visited in New Brunswick each Christmas, supervened in October.

Meighen did not, as yet, have a seat; Bennett was paired and in Calgary. (neuer Art), Serial Nr. 784, arrived in Albert County on 17 July 1920 after the long journey across the Atlantic Ocean from the battlefields of France. Make sure, John Wesley had said, not to waste time on “silly unprofitable diversions”: “Gain all you can. . . .

Except for Robert James Manion, he was the youngest candidate. Only 25 per cent came from his legal practice. Dept. The Farmers’ Creditors Arrangement Act was designed to allow families to remain on their farms rather than lose them to foreclosure. He joined a host of organizations in England and was a popular speaker wherever he went.

He could not be appointed to cabinet because Lougheed was government leader in the Senate. The text was nine pages. Harry died suddenly in 1926, bequeathing all his shares to Bennett. He proceeded to order those Canadian essentials, efficient plumbing and central heating. It is a rare chronic condition of middle age and is sometimes related to incipient diabetes.