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Arrested and tried in 1931 as an officer of an illegal organization, he served almost three years in Kingston Penitentiary. After he got out he helped stage the 1935 March of the Unemployed on Ottawa, conducted a training school for Communists, edited the Communist Clarion. At the outbreak of World War II he went underground...
...Dion, who has been with the family 26 years, drove him to his old law office in the Price Building, where his two lawyer sons carry on the family practice. He chatted with them about their cases, talked with the local politicians who dropped in, kept in touch with Ottawa by phone. He turned aside political questions. When a reporter asked him if he thought that he would be reelected, he cracked: "I think people are tired of extraordinary men and of extraordinary events. Like Truman, I am an average...
...gave him a dinner; he went to the Liberal Reform Club to hand out gifts to 45 orphans. This week, there would be a family farewell party, for which Madame St. Laurent would fix a 29-lb. turkey. Then Grand-Père St. Laurent would head back to Ottawa...
...series will be a reply to an article in the Atlantic Monthly by Nieman Curator Louis M. Lyons '20 attacking the Tribune's first series. Eugene Griffin, who wrote the first series for the Tribune has already left his Ottawa post to start work on the new series, it was learned...
...Ottawa reasons that if either Canada or the U.S. goes to war, the other will inevitably be an active ally. Standardization of arms is obviously desirable. Canada would like to start the project with 1,500 to 2,000 planes, the first half for the R.C.A.F. and the second half for the U.S. With the dollars obtained from selling the planes to the U.S., Canada could pay for purchases of U.S.-produced armaments...