Word: ago
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...long ago as last August, Caracas' everlasting bolas (rumors) had whispered that the army was dissatisfied with the way things were going in the government offices at green-walled Miraflores Palace. Novelist-President Gallegos and the ruling Acción Democrádtica party wanted to reduce the army to a police force; the army had no intention of being demoted. High officers called on President Gallegos, demanded four cabinet posts, four governorships. Easygoing, well-meaning Gallegos did nothing...
Twenty years ago a cocky youngster named Clement George McCullagh quit his job as assistant financial editor on the old Toronto Globe, to get into the million-dollar deals that he had been writing about on Toronto's Bay Street. His boss warned him against it, but McCullagh's mind was made up. "The next time I come in," he boasted, "I'll be buying this newspaper out from under...
There were three contenders for the post of chief surgeon at the new Hôtel-Dieu in Sorel. One, a native of Quebec, was licensed long ago by the provincial College of Physicians and Surgeons, had served overseas in the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps. The second, Dr. Georges Montel, a native of France, got a quickie license from the college only last September. He also had a war record: he served the Vichy government. The third, a local doctor pinch-hitting as head surgeon, was brushed aside. Last month the Sorel hospital turned down the veteran, hired Collaborator...
...Montel had entered Canada illegally two years ago, had escaped deportation through pull in high places (TIME, Oct. 18). Only last week did Quebec doctors and the Canadian Legion hear that he had won his new job at a veteran's expense...
...Professor of English Literature at Cambridge University. "I'm in a hideous funk about it," he wrote to a friend. But the funk didn't last long, and in time Q became one of the most popular lecturers the university had. When he died four years ago at 81, he was still lecturing. Last week, in a short, intimate biography (Arthur Quiller-Couch; Macmillan, $3.50), his friend Fred Brittain, Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge, tried to tell what Q was like...