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...tightest little political machines in North America is the Liberal Government of Canada's Province of Quebec, which has had an uninterrupted, 39-year run of power. Head man since 1920 has been wily, wiry Premier Hon. Louis Alexandre Taschereau, now 69, born to an aristocratic French family, accustomed to lead Quebec's backward, French-speaking farmers. His father was a Canadian Supreme Court Justice, his mother's father a Quebec Lieutenant Governor. His family gave the Catholic Church a cardinal, and Premier Taschereau, like France's great 17th Century Cardinal Richelieu, has prodigious habits...
...years ago Professor Harold Benjamin Fantham and Dr. Annie Porter, McGill University zoologists, came upon a Quebec "family of little women" none of whom was more than four and a half feet tall. They were all well-proportioned, strong, vigorous and promiscuous. For cohabitants they invariably selected little men by whom they bred little children. This family drew a report in last week's Eugenical News...
...allay the widespread Christian conviction that Jews alone were responsible for crucifying Jesus Christ. C. Near Albuquerque, N. Mex. on Good Friday, Los Hermanos Penitentes re-enacted their bloody version of Christ's Passion, with increased attention from sightseers and the Press (TIME, March 9). C. In Quebec, Good Friday was celebrated as many Catholics believe it should be everywhere. By proclamation, Mayor J. E. Gregoire ordered all theatres, public buildings, shops closed for the day. At 4 p. m. citizens were directed to observe a minute of holy silence while the city fire alarm pealed 19 times...
...pulpwood supply was handy and adequate. And since papermaking requires more power per worker than any other industry, except possibly electro-chemicals, he built hydroelectric plants to turn his paper mills. While he was about it, he installed enough generating capacity to serve a sizable section of Ontario and Quebec...
Sherbrooke, Quebec Sirs: It is with genuine regret that I read James C. Barton's letter in TIME, Jan. 27-rotten taste and damned rude. Let me assure you that some of us Britishers do not have ''so strong a sense of humor." For shame, Mister Barton! J. RICHARDS PETRIE Fredericton...