Word: montreal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first time, Canadians are taking a good look at what their artists have been up to. From Toronto to Montreal last week went "The Development of Painting in Canada," a 240-picture show which aims at a full, chronological review of the nation's art-from early 17th Century, French-inspired religious canvases down to the most modern (and also French-inspired) abstractions. The show's outstanding point: Canadian artists have passed through about the same esthetic cycles as other colonial countries. They began by holding tight to the mother-country's stylistic (French Louis XIV) apron...
...Washington was getting ready to adopt a work-or-fight law (see U.S. at War); Canada had had one since 1942. The commissioners wanted to see for themselves how Canada's system works. At Ottawa they were to get an overall view. Then they could visit Toronto, Hamilton, Montreal to see how the system works in the field...
...chief charges: 1) Houde had bribed his way into office; 2) he had bet on the election; 3) he was ineligible because he had not been a resident of Montreal for the required three years before election day (Houde was in internment camp for four years, until last August, for urging Quebeckers not to register for national selective service). Justice Louis Cousineau ordered the Mayor to defend himself in court...
Whoever Mayor Houde's antagonists were, they would need plenty of proof to back their charges, plenty of energy to make them stick. Hardly anyone doubted that Houde, wily in the ways of politics, would be able to wriggle free. Montreal, long used to political free-for-alls, sat back to watch...
...Mayor, unperturbed, went skating. On an open-air rink in eastern Montreal, cavorting youngsters saw his portly honor. He was swathed in sweaters and wore a ceinture flechée around his waist (see cut), and his outsize nose was empurpled with the cold as he skillfully performed the figures he had learned during idle hours in the New Brunswick internment camp...