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...foyer of the University of Michigan athletic office is a trophy room which makes the Harvard Club of Boston look like a local billiard parlor...

Author: By William S. Fairfield, | Title: Egg in Your Beer | 3/2/1948 | See Source »

...hundred - twenty - two of Lowell House's 300 diners have cried for abrogation of the no-coat-removal ruling in the dining hall, a late count of the signatures to a petition in the foyer disclosed last night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 122 Lowell Diners Angered by Ruling Forbidding Shirtsleeves | 7/3/1947 | See Source »

...shoe factory, a heel factory and a rayon mill-all in St. Georges (pop. 6,000). Most of his rayon-mill hands-he runs two shifts, 6 a.m. to 2 p.m. and 2 p.m. to 10 p.m.-are daughters of local farmers. About 50 of them live in Le Foyer, a dormitory built as an annex to the Convent of the Sisters of the Good Shepherd. On the first floor of the greystone four-story building are a cafeteria, a recreation room and parlors where the girls can entertain Sunday afternoons and evenings and two or three nights a week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: QUEBEC: Help Wanted: Female | 5/19/1947 | See Source »

Dionne, a religious man who goes to Mass every morning, is also a believer in the letter of the law. He keeps wages in most cases close to the legal minimum of 20? an hour, or $9.60 for a 48-hour week. Girls housed at Le Foyer spend $6 of this amount for board & keep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: QUEBEC: Help Wanted: Female | 5/19/1947 | See Source »

...explained his needs to UNRRA officials. The 100 girls he wanted for his mill must be Roman Catholics and unmarried virgins. (An Army chaplain talked him out of the second requirement.) Once he got them to St. Georges, he promised, he would house them at Le Foyer, teach them about Canada, pay them the legal minimum of 20? an hour. He plans to spend $42,500 to fly the girls to Canada. "I can't wait for boats," says Ludger Dionne...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: QUEBEC: Help Wanted: Female | 5/19/1947 | See Source »

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