Word: montreal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week, for the 959th time, Society President Jules Masse took to the air over CKAC (Montreal). As always, he opened with Expressions a corriger cette semaine. His prime examples: "Hip! Hip! Hurray!" should give way to "Hourra! Bravo!" and in the counting house Frenchmen should speak of un verificateur de limes, not un auditeur de limes...
...those convicted on Gouzenko's evidence, eight are behind bars: ex-M.P. Fred Rose in St. Vincent de Paul, near Montreal; the others in Kingston Penitentiary, where all are rated as "reformable" under the prison grading system. In Britain, Scientist Dr. Allan Nunn May is in prison (ten years), but British officials will not say where...
Ringleader Sam Carr and Freda Linton are still loose; Carr has been reported at various places in Latin America. Another of the accused, Dr. Raymond Boyer of Montreal, is out on appeal bond under sentence of two years in prison...
...nine others charged but found innocent, four are back at their former jobs; one of them working for the Dominion government, one for a Montreal newspaper and two others, a physician and an optometrist, at their own practices in Toronto. The rest of the acquitted have had to get other jobs. One of them, a biochemist, went to Paris to work after vainly trying for a year to get a place in Canada...
...match the razzle-dazzle politicking of Premier Maurice Duplessis, Quebec's Liberals had to set off some pre-election fireworks of their own. Last week they had the occasion: the soth anniversary of Montreal's Reform Club, bastion of the Liberal Party...