The same year, Brownlee visited his family in Ontario ; he returned to Alberta with his sister, Maude, who assisted Florence with the care of her children.

There he benefited from the tutelage of James Muir, who spent hours finding precise citations relevant to Brownlee's studies, and then left the casebooks open to the appropriate page for Brownlee to find the next morning.

Henry Wise Wood's influence on Brownlee's life would be profound. Another of Brownlee's contacts was T. A. Crerar, who had recently become leader of the Progressive Party of Canada, and it was to him that Brownlee turned for his political education.

When he restructured the UGG's capital, Brownlee included a rider that non-farmers who held shares at the time the new structure came into effect could hold voting shares.

In 1941, Brownlee travelled to Ottawa to express the UGG's case ; there he collaborated with O. M. Biggar, representing the private grain companies in the form of the North-West Line Elevators Association ( NLEA ), who also objected to the pools ' exemption, on a joint brief to the Minister of National Revenue.

In February 1947, Brownlee returned to Ottawa to present the UGG's case to Finance Minister Douglas Abbott, who eventually sided with the UGG and extended the pools ' exemption to it.

Foster says that Brownlee was known by his staff as " a man whose life was his work, who lived in his briefcase, and whose only recreation seemed to be changing from one job to another ".

Brownlee, who had opposed the agreement, authorized a purchase of advertising across the country pointing out that the government fixed the domestic price of wheat at $ 0. 77 per bushel while the world price reached as high as $ 2. 18.

Brownlee relinquished any claim on the estate in favour of his sister, who had cared for their mother in her last years.

When Calgary planners announced their intention to widen Memorial Drive, where the Brownlees lived, several residents expressed concern that the plan would destroy the street's trees ; they consulted Brownlee, who telephoned the mayor and saved the trees.

Faced with an aggressive attack by new Liberal leader John R. Boyle, Greenfield relied heavily on Attorney General John Brownlee, who sat next to him in the legislature, to provide the defense.

By 1924, many of Greenfield's own backbenchers had had enough and hatched a plan to force Greenfield's resignation and replace him with Brownlee, who was perceived as more likely to lead the UFA to victory in the impending election.

He also feuded with then-Premier Brownlee over development in Alberta's national parks ( Stewart favouring large-scale private development and Brownlee opposing it ), causing King to record in his diary " Brownlee strikes me as ... being superior to Mr. Stewart, who is handicapped in his dislike of.

In 1925, John E. Brownlee, who was already widely believed to be the " true " leader of the United Farmers, succeeded Greenfield as Premier.

Smith was also angry that neither Brownlee or Brash ( who appeared now to support Brownlee ) had given any indication of the upcoming challenge.

Following the controversy surrounding Brash's Orewa speech of 27 January 2004, Brownlee became the National Party's spokesman for Maori Affairs in place of Georgina Te Heuheu, who resigned from the position after refusing to endorse party-leader Brash's comments.

In March 2012 Brownlee sparked a near-diplomatic incident with Finland, after he suggested during a parliamentary session that Finns are uneducated, unemployed murderers who don't respect women.

With his comments Brownlee rejected New Zealand Labour Party's plans to model the economy on Finland, and added that Finland " has worse unemployment than us, has less growth than us, can hardly feed the people who live there, has a terrible homicide rate, hardly educates its people, and has no respect for women.

The main newspaper in Finland Helsingin Sanomat interviewed Juha Parikka, the Minister-Counsellor of Finland at the Embassy in Canberra, who said that the embassy would take action and try to clarify what exactly Brownlee meant by his comments.

In 1974, shortly after taking the reins at Ann Arbor's Community High, Brownlee characterized the student body as sixty-percent " high achievers who are politically disenchanted " and forty-percent students who were " academically disenchanted.

After the event, Dr. Robert R. Brownlee described the best estimate of the cover's speed from the photographic evidence as " going like a bat out of hell !!

The Ward and Brownlee argument holds that a planetary system capable of sustaining complex life must be structured more or less like our solar system, with small and rocky inner planets, and Jovian outer ones.

After the event, Dr. Robert R. Brownlee described the best estimate of the cover's speed from the photographic evidence as " going like a bat out of hell!

Brownlee was replaced by the very able lead Henry Johnson, who, like Brownlee, made devastated screams.

Though most of his legal work was for the AFCEC and then the UGG, Brownlee also made contact with leaders of the UFA proper, including William Irvine, Irene Parlby, Herbert Greenfield, and, most importantly, Henry Wise Wood.

The charismatic Wood was the UFA's president, and Brownlee often accompanied him to speaking engagements at UFA locals across Alberta in 1919 and 1920.

Wood held meetings enraptured with his sermons on cooperation and social justice — Brownlee at one point likened the UFA to a religion — while Brownlee explained the services offered by the UFA's central office and answered members ' legal questions.

A second attempt in 1925 was successful when Wood intervened to convince Brownlee to accept the premiership and Greenfield assured him that he would be pleased to be rid of it.

However, Wood had little taste for the minutiae of government, preferring to remain at the head of what he saw as a broader political movement ( noting that he would " sooner be President of the UFA than the USA "), and saw party lawyer Brownlee as the best choice.

This time, Henry Wise Wood intervened to ask Brownlee to reconsider, which he agreed to do only if Greenfield himself made the request.

Brownlee and Reid had a history of working closely not only on fiscal issues, but also on agricultural ones: in July 1923, they had travelled together to investigate the creation of a wheat pool in Alberta.

Both Reid and Brownlee concluded that a pool ought to be proceeded with cautiously, if at all, though this view was overruled when a later visit by Sapiro to Alberta generated sufficient enthusiasm that the government had little choice but to go along with the creation of the Alberta Wheat Pool.

When the jury found in favour of the plaintiffs, however, Brownlee had no choice, and resigned effective 10 July 1934.

John Brownlee had one sister, Maude, born September 12, 1888.

Florence Edy in 1909Brownlee and his wife had two sons: John Edy Brownlee was born December 1915, and Alan Marshall Brownlee was born September 1917.

Christmas morning 1923, the Brownlee boys awoke to find footprints of coal dust leading from the fireplace to the stairs and a handwritten note from Santa Claus apologizing from the mess and explaining that he had been searching for one of his reindeer.

Brownlee, as the UGG's attorney, was successful in obtaining an injunction against further hearings until the UGG had time to conduct its own investigation and, as importantly, until the Medicine Hat by-election was over.

As Aberhart gained popularity, Brownlee attacked his solutions as illusory, but had little of his own to offer but critiques and orthodoxy.

MacMillan alleged that Brownlee had seduced her in 1930 and that the subsequent affair had lasted until 1933 ; Brownlee denied her story completely and said that the lawsuit was the result of a conspiracy between MacMillan, her fiance, and Brownlee's opponents in the Liberal Party.

Aberhart did not resist the comparison, retorting that the pied piper had " rid the capitol of all the rats "; Brownlee responded that, after doing that, he had led its children to their destruction.

By 1940, Brownlee had restored his career to it position before he entered politics: his firm counted a number of major agricultural companies among its clients, and the UGG too brought him considerable work.

Brownlee had an interventionist style as President, which Foster acknowledged sometimes " verged on outright interference ".

His distaste for Aberhart's social credit government — and in particular its contention, which Brownlee viewed as unfair, that the UFA had left the government bankrupt — did not prevent him from advising it behind the scenes on a number of issues, most notably Alberta's submission to the Rowell-Sirois Commission, The Case for Alberta.