Word: gagnon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year-old carpenter named Joe Gagnon claimed a world record for clam eating after he downed 167 steamed little-necks in eight minutes in Seattle...
...Wheeler (H); second, Taylor (BU); third, Fearn (BU); time--1:57.4. Dive won by Callery (BU); second, Sandberg (H); third Johnson (H): winner's points--66.5 150-yd. Medley Relay won by Harvard(Dorris, Hurwitz, Burg): time--1:32.6. 200-yd. Freestyle Relay won by BU (Eldridge, Gagnon, Sheehy, Read): time...
...squatters moved in on Montreal last week. And the Communists moved in on the squatters. Leader of the Montreal squatters, who took over two empty gambling joints, was Henri Gagnon, 36, Quebec's No. 1 Communist and an organizer of the Communist Labor Progressive Party. The Montreal squatting movement, like others in Canada, was born out of the attempts of non-Communist veterans to find living quarters. At the first Montreal meeting, Gagnon appeared, had himself elected president of the newly formed Homeless Veterans' League, and led the squats...
...excitedly: "It is part of a worldwide Communist plot to disrupt democratic institutions." But the Premier, who is empowered under Quebec's Padlock Law to close any establishment in which subversive activities are being carried on, could not move against the squatters until the courts rule on whether Gagnon's squat constituted forcible entry...
...last week the public got behind the drive. In Chicago Musi-comedienne June Havoc auctioned off two pairs of nylons at $1,300 worth of bonds a pair. The three survivors of the six-man detail which posed for the famed flag-raising picture on Iwo Jima - Pfc. Rene Gagnon, Pfc. Ira Hayes and Pharmacist's Mate John Bradley - rode through the rain to inspire the cheering citizens of Boston. In Tampa, a 75-mm. cannon boomed hourly from Plant Park. In Indianapolis, Mayor Robert Tyndall gave "the order of the day": Over the top. Indianapolis. Cheyenne County...