In less than a month, the national convention of the Liberal Party would meet to pick a party leader to succeed retiring Mackenzie King. Hats began to go into the ring. Short, scrappy Agriculture Minister James Gardiner last week announced: "I have agreed that those who think I would make a suitable leader for the party might place my name in nomination."
This was the first announced competition to dignified (66) Louis St. Laurent, Minister of External Affairs, who most Canadians had long assumed would be the new Premier. Now they are not...
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