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...French authorities told Serge to leave the country because of his shady financial transactions. Serge had another version: Premier Pierre Laval, he said, suspected Rubinstein of dallying with his mistress, a French marquise, and deported him in a fit of jealousy. Two years before his expulsion, he had got hold of operating control of the Chosen Corp., a British company which owned some Korean gold mines. It was a typically slippery operation. The company was in the midst of a management scandal (the director ultimately went off to Wormwood Scrubs prison), and the stock was momentarily cheap. Before Serge made...
...Politicians. St. Laurent had intended to name Father Georges-Henri Lévesque, 51, brilliant dean of the social-science faculty at Quebec's Laval University. Father Lévesque was ready to accept the post, and his Dominican Order approved. But the priest's diocesan superior, Quebec Archbishop Maurice Roy, vetoed it. Ottawa Archbishop Marie-Joseph Lemieux and Paul-Emile Cardinal Léger of Montreal agreed with Archbishop Roy's stand that the unprecedented * appointment of a priest to a political post might eventually embarrass the church...
...eyes of all France watched as Gaston, his weathered features paler after a year in jail, faced his tribunal of seven jurors and three judges. The courtroom was packed with a crowd of 400 eager spectators for the most publicized French trial since those of Petain and Laval in 1945. Banks of reporters from Paris and London came down to tell the story for their readers. A U.S. movie producer dropped by to measure the film possibilities of Gaston's case. Famed French Author Jean Giono was on hand to get material for a book. By comparison with Gaston...
...Born and raised in Paris' industrial slums, Jouhaux went to work in a match factory, at 30 was boss of the powerful Confederation of Labor (C.G.T.). During the strike-torn '303, he pulled the C.G.T. into the Socialist Front Populaire, alongside the Communists fought Hitler, Franco, Pierre Laval. Imprisoned by the Nazis in World War II, he came home to find the C.G.T. run by Communists, in 1947 broke away to lead an independent, anti-Communist labor movement (Force Ouvriere...
...Crimson scored 489 points, while Williams and Syracuse scored 470 and 445 respectively to take the last two positions. St. Lawrence, New Hampshire, Dartmouth, Vermont, Laval, and Norwich also competed...