The man who has been head of a government longer than any other living leader won another round last week. Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King sat in the House of Commons, heard it for the fourth time in eleven years vote unanimously for a Government bill. The bill: an act to authorize payment of cash allowances to Canadian parents for every child under 16 (TIME, July 3).
Prime Minister King beamed. He had triumphed in his favorite role: the champion of the underdog.
"Political Bribery." Tory Leader John Bracken, who does not sit in Parliament, had called the measure "political...
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