Word: camillien
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sixth time, bug-eyed Camillien Houde would be mayor of Montreal. There had been talk that a couple of unknowns would try to take his $10,000-a-year job away from him, but they decided to save the taxpayers' time and money. And so as filing time expired, Houde became last week the first Montreal mayor since 1898 to land the job without opposition...
...made Camillien feel good. While congratulatory wires and letters piled up on his desk, he lolled in his high-backed chair, chain-smoked, outlined his formula for political success. "I'm good-natured but quick-tempered," said he. "Also they tell me I am bighearted. I will never leave a man in a poor fix if I can help it. No one leaves my office without some hope. But I don't mince words. Sometimes I tell them it's their own damned fault they got into trouble in the first place. Then I try to help...
Official Montreal really put on the dog for its distinguished visitor. Excitable Mayor Camillien Houde was absolutely épaté as the visitor signed his name below Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery's in the city's Gold Book. Then came a civic reception, and that afternoon the visitor was whisked out to the Blue Bonnets racetrack for the running of the big sixth race, renamed in his honor. The winning jockey was a namesake (but no kin) of Maurice Chevalier, which was fitting, because the man who handed him the winner's plaque was the latest homme...
Less important to tourists but more so for Camillien Houde were other changes. His strident French-Canadian nationalism, with its emphasis on "racism," big families and close ties of church and state, seemed to have lost some of its appeal. Nevertheless, he joined the Bloc Populaire, a catch-all of all nationalistic slogans, to extend his power beyond Montreal. In two election tests, the second last month, the Bloc was soundly trounced. For the time being, at least, the Bloc was a dead political duck...
...Sights. Camillien Houde had to adjust his ideas to a new generation of French Canadians. But to tourists' eyes, at least, the country of the seigneurs still looked the same...