Word: benoit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most important of the four was Dr. Georges Benoit Montel, 49, who helped to run the city of Annecy for the Vichy regime and stridently mouthed Vichy's pro-Nazi propaganda. He got into Canada two years ago posing as Dr. Lacroix, quickly got a job at Laval University. When Montel confessed his illegal entry, Dominion authorities (following almost invariable practice) ordered him deported...
Until he got into the political big time, De Bernonville was unknown in Canada. That was the way he wanted it. Two years ago, using a forged passport and the name of Jacques Benoit, he had sneaked into the Dominion from the U.S. At first he kept out of sight by working in the Quebec woods. Then he settled in Montreal's fashionable Côte des Neiges district, was joined by his wife and three daughters, gradually began to move about in the French-speaking community. He drifted from one job to another, working for a while with...
...State of Insurrection." Earlier the Cocos had been riding high. Comrade Benoit Frachon, kingpin of the C.G.T., had formed a National Central Strike Committee representing 20 striking unions (out of the C.G.T.'s total of 38) and was issuing daily communiques. Two million workers were idle. More than a million tons of coal production had been lost; 253 ships were tied up in French ports, more than half of them laden with coal and oil. Since most of the rank & file preferred to remain at work, as the secret strike votes indicated, the Frachon committee met this opposition with...
...workers at the nationalized Renault automobile plant struck for a ten-franc-an-hour raise. Their demands ran counter to the Government's hold-the-line policy (TIME, March 3), which the Communist Party (and its five Cabinet ministers) had approved. To deal with the situation, beetle-browed Benoit Frachon, Communist Co-Secretary General of France's General Federation of Labor, called in Eugene Henaff, a tough Communist disciplinarian (whose chief claim to distinction is that he has worn a red tie every day for the past eleven years). Benoit Frachon issued instructions: "We have a small wildcat...
...concentrated on interviews. In Paris he sat down with Foreign Minister Georges Bidault, Premier Paul Ramadier, President Vincent Auriol, Communist Labor Boss Benoit Frachon, and a raft of other politicians and industrialists. In his off-hours he hustled through the Renault and Chausson factories (autos and trucks) and a textile plant; he talked with businessmen, workers, storekeepers. He had the usual trouble with the French telephone system...