Word: noblet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wednesday was election day in Quebec. It was also the day of Premier Maurice Le Noblet Duplessis' patron, St. Joseph. Wednesday is Duplessis' favorite day of the week: he always tries to save his important acts for that day. After Mass in the morning, he toured all 119 polling booths in his home town, Trois-Rivières. He shook hands till his fingers cramped, greeting voters by their first names. Time & again his henchmen restrained him as he reached in his pocket for quarters for moppets: "Not on election day, Maurice." At 6:30 p.m. Bachelor Duplessis...
...Breach Widens. Quebec's next Premier will be the Union Nationale's Maurice Le Noblet Duplessis. A political opportunist who talks like a fascist about Jews and harries labor unions, Duplessis was Quebec's Premier when World War II 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...
...sleepy village of Ste. Claire (pop. 150) in rugged, sparsely settled Dorchester County went Maurice Le Noblet Duplessis, a pink-cheeked opportunist who was once Premier of Quebec and would like to be again. He was there to address a typical pre-campaign meeting in Quebec, where all important political meetings are held on Sunday. Townspeople, farmers in from the country, all of them fresh from morning Mass, thronged to hear Maurice Duplessis make...
Labor groaned at his election, called him a "tool of the power trust." More important, Montreal suspected that Mayor Raynault was a political stalking horse for Maurice Le Noblet Duplessis, Quebec boss of the conservatives. Duplessis, no friend of Great Britain, lost his provincial premiership and control of the Legislature in the first flush of Canada's war enthusiasm a year ago, but is struggling for a comeback. He represents a great body of French Canadians who are getting almost as wary of World War II as they were of World War I (when there were ugly antidraft riots...