Word: fathers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Western intellectual in Nehru grows impatient and often irritable over dependence. The East in him responds intuitively. Emotionally, he plays to the hilt the role of father to his people...
...British father and a French mother, Monsieur Henri was born Henry Hutchinson in Paris 42 years ago. He came to Mexico in 1942 and set up shop as Henri de Chatillon, hatmaker, in the Reforma mansion that had once housed Emperor Maximilian's mistress. His first hats were as fantastic as they were expensive, and sold like hot cakes. Often they really were hot cakes: Chatillon found that steaming Mexican tortillas, molded to the head and well-shellacked, made salable chapeaux. He made other hats from zacate, the maguey fiber Mexicans use instead of steel wool, and the cheap...
...named Taillefer had pleaded guilty to five charges of keeping and selling narcotics. English papers were more specific: the man was the Rev. Arthur Taillefer, curate of the Roman Catholic Church of Ste.-Madeleine d'Outremont. In the prisoner's dock at the Palais de Justice, Father Taillefer had confessed that he was a key figure in the biggest narcotics ring ever uncovered in Montreal...
Once the contact was made, another Mountie undercover man got to know Father Taillefer, then made a deal for six ounces of heroin. The priest directed him to Montreal's Central Station, where the heroin was stored in a locker. For three months after that, the police let Father Taillefer operate freely, keeping watch on him and his associates in Montreal's crime belt. When the Mounties pounced four weeks ago, three other Montrealers, who are still awaiting trial, were charged along with Father Taillefer. A cache of 15,000 heroin capsules ("enough to keep the city going...
Police advised Montreal Archbishop Joseph Charbonneau of Father Taillefer's arrest. Said the Archbishop: "I want justice to take its normal course." His only request was that Defendant Taillefer not be allowed to wear a priest's garb in court. In his jail cell, Arthur Taillefer was handed an ill-fitting brown gabardine suit, took it without protest. He wore it when he went to trial...