Word: adelard
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Marvel of It. It was a marvelous triumph-so sweeping that next day the whole of Quebec gasped. Quebec's Liberal leader, Adelard Godbout, had hoped, this time, to carry the province. The Liberals had sent in External Affairs Secretary...
...voice choked with emotion, softspoken, honest Adelard Godbout told a radio audience that he "bowed to the decision." He would retire from politics to his Frelighsburg farm. Almost everyone was sorry to see him go, even those who thrilled to the name-calling that Duplessis reveled in. As Adelard Godbout put it privately: "This business is too dirty...
Bigger issues were at stake than just filling the seat vacated by ailing Edouard Lacroix, Bloc Populaire member. This time no Bloc candidate ran. Aside from a Social Crediter who was just practicing, the contest was between candidates of Quebec's two major parties-ex-Premier Adelard Godbout's Liberals and Premier Maurice Duplessis' Union Nationale. The Liberals hoped to reduce the Government's slim majority in the Legislative Assembly (lower House), then turn the Liberal-dominated Legislative Council (upper House) loose on Government bills, and force an early general election...
Shrewd little Premier Adelard Godbout last week introduced in Quebec's legislature a bill to: 1) create a five-man Hydroelectric Commission, thereby putting the Province in the power business; 2) expropriate, by April 15, the $210,000,000 Montreal Light, Heat & Power Cons. Said he: "[This bill] will change the economic life of the Province...
...thousands of French Canadians filed past his body lying in state in the provincial legislature at Quebec city, a disturbing thought ran through many a mind: there was no one to replace him. Louis Alexandre Tascherau was one possible candidate-but he was 73. Quietly competent Joseph Adelard Godbout, Premier of Quebec, was another-but he was inexperienced in national politics...