Leader of Canada's Progressive Conservative [Tory'] Party, which last-week downed the powerful Liberals: JOHN GEORGE DIEFENBAKER.
Early Life: Born in Normanby Township, Ont., Sept. 18. 1895. His father (a schoolteacher, later a farmer and civil servant) and mother were third-generation Canadians. When he was eight, the family moved to wheat-growing, western Saskatchewan, where John Diefenbaker helped break the land, fought prairie fires. Took political-science and law degrees at the University of Saskatchewan.
Career: After a year as a soldier in World War I, he built up a reputation as a defender of the underdog. Changed his Liberal sympathies in 1925, ran first of...
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