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Word: conscriptionist (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Montreal, biggest city in Canada and next to Paris the largest French-speaking city in the world, 2,000,000 (again double the population) awaited them. So did mercurial, bouncy little Mayor Camillien Houde, anti-conscriptionist, Italophile (TIME, Feb. 20), a municipal executive with the verve of Manhattan's Mayor LaGuardia and the political slant of the late Huey Long. At the station, Queen Elizabeth delayed proceedings for a five-minute chat with kilted, Black Watch Captain S. S. T. Cantlie, but from then on Mayor Houde stole the show. He and his pert wife stole the Queen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Royal Visit | 5/29/1939 | See Source »

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