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Usage examples of tories.

Just before noon, on June 21, 1957, John Diefenbaker and thirteen jolly Tories arrived at Rideau Hall to be sworn in as the new Government of Canada.

If his lordship should get wind of this, there would be the devil to pay and Tories wages could not begin to give the devil his due.

The Tories had won the seat only once, in 19 1 1, since it had been created in i 9o6.

The Liberals tried to paint the Tories as those wicked men who had ordered English soldiers to drag their fathers out of bed to fight the First World War.

But once the Tories were firmly ensconced in office, the problems of power wore down the enthusiasm of nearly all the major figures in the Diefenbaker cabinet.

Hees made so many speeches on so many subjects that old-line Tories complained he was hewing George Hees: Y.

By 1956 Leslie Frost and Michael Starr had convinced him that the only man who could return the Tories to power was John Diefenbaker.

Even in 1956 many Tories were saying the word as if it were written Diefenbacker, which gave it an alien, Germanic sound.

Ottawa bordello, at 141 Laurier Avenue West that the Tories even had a permanent home.

Before the 1958 by-election in the Manitoba constituency of Springfield, for example, Ottawa Tories were worried about the effects of a recent freight-rate increase.

During the 1962 election, the Tories mailed out fifteen million pamphlets.

During his time in office John Diefenbaker jettisoned with gusto the historic compact between the Tories and the financial men of St James and Bay Streets.

He wound up his speech with a rhetorical flourish which will probably be quoted by afterdinner speakers at political banquets for as long as there are Tories in Canada: I am a Canadian, a free Canadian, ftee to speak without fear free to worship God in my own way, free to standfor what I think right,firee to oppose what I believe wrong, orfree to choose those who shall govern my country.

That evening he described his triumphs in another moving address to a rally Of 1,35o Tories meeting at the Chateau Laurier Hotel.

It was doubtful if any single action won the Tories more domestic political support.