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...dapper little man with a lisp and a limp walked into an UNRRA office in Germany and showed his credentials. He was Ludger Dionne,* first-term member of the Canadian House of Commons from St. Georges, in Quebec's Beauce County and he was in Germany with the approval of the Canadian Government and the Intergovernmental Committee on Refugees. What he wanted made UNRRA officials blink: 100 girls, preferably Poles...
...Ludger Dionne, 59, is a canny industrialist who operates, among other things, a 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...
...that the factory would be moved unless its laborers behaved. Weaver Forstmann is proud of the fact that his forefathers signed the roster of the Weavers Guild of Flanders and later moved to Werden, Germany, where his great-great-grandfather and Johann Friederich Huffmann bought the Abbey of St. Ludger the Great because it had a fine carp pond which furnished water for the making of woolens...