Word: larding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...began. He took a beating when he tried to make trouble for Dominion Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King by calling an election on the issue of provincial rights in wartime. This time he shrewdly capitalized on Quebec's dislike of war, conscription, beat Liberal Premier Adélard Godbout...
...truth in them to hurt. Quebec City's L'Action Catholique, the organ of powerful Cardinal J. M. Rodrigue Villeneuve, called Bouchard a "vile man" and a traitor to his people. The Cardinal himself said: "I must publicly disapprove. . . ." The Liberal Party's Premier Adélard Godbout, from whose Cabinet Bouchard had gone to the Senate, was sorely embarrassed. In Ottawa, a French Canadian member of Mackenzie King's Liberal Government tried to minimize the whole affair. Said able, cool Louis Stephen St. Laurent, Minister of Justice: ". . . a group of from one-tenth...
Plenty for All-Now. There was other news last week to make citizens suppose that the food shortage was over, and the long-predicted "famine" a false alarm. Butter stocks were over 100 million lb., as against a normal spring supply of 40 million lb. Lard stocks were the biggest ever. Total meat production in March was 27% greater than a year ago. There were hints that point values for lamb and mutton, butter, pork products, and some beef cuts would be reduced on May 1 Manhattan's bustling fish market was swamped one day by the arrival...
...quite 5%. The New York Sun rang up the net incomes of 215 companies, found they were up a bare 2%. With U.S. production up a solid 17% during the year, this was little enough to crow about - with renegotiation still to come. But renegotiation, trimming off the lard, may not be such a hazard now: during the year, many a corporation sensibly slashed its prices to Uncle Sam. And as an additional bulwark, many companies built up special renegotiation reserves to take care of refunds...
...Catholic Quebec. To his Ste. Claire hearers, many of whom seldom if ever see a Jew, Duplessis hinted a horrendous plot by the International Zionist Brotherhood to establish 100,000 Jewish refugees from Central Europe on Quebec's rolling fields. Opposition Leader Duplessis dragged in Premier Adélard Godbout's ruling Liberal Party, said that the Zionists had decided "to aid financially all Liberal candidates who would agree openly or secretly to support the plan in the House of Commons...