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...hottest politician in Brazil today is a swart, heavyset, pulsating man named Adhemar Pereira de Barros. "Our Adhemar," as his admirers call him, is governor of the state of São Paulo, Brazil's richest province, home of its heavy industry, and exporter of 60% of its cotton and coffee. Its capital city of São Paulo is the fastest growing big city in the world...
...chances were good that the voters would give it to him. Montreal's solid citizens were worried. They were backing stubby little Adhemar Raynault, who had been Mayor while Houde was interned. He had done an honest but uninspired job of presiding over Montreal's 99-man council. But Mayor Raynault, mindful of Houde's colorful personality and his record as an anticonscriptionist, was on the defensive. Said he: "This is not the time nor the place nor the moment to say whether my opponent was right in 1940." Answered Houde: "In the present struggle...
...panier, who polled only 1,027 votes less than Mayor J. Adhemar Raynault, has a long record of civic activities and achievements. In the last war he was co-chairman of Quebec's Victory War Loan Campaign...
...ADHEMAR RAYNAULT...
...winner by this tiny margin was another unusual figure, an insurance tycoon, J. Adhemar Raynault, who once before left his business to serve briefly as Mayor of Montreal, gave the city an administration active in Red-baiting. No spendthrift, M. Raynault slashed civic expenses. In his Gallic thrift Mayor Raynault had the mayor's official $1,400 fur robe stuffed away in a city vault to save the annual 3% furrier's storage charge. Moths ate all but the buttons...