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Word: quebecs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been so badly battered in six months of strikes and increases granted by War Labor Boards that abandonment was more or less of a formality. Nevertheless, Prime Minister Mackenzie King shrewdly made what political capital with labor he could out of it by making the announcement while in Quebec City for the Liberal gathering (see below...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: THE DOMINION: Off with the Lid | 12/9/1946 | See Source »

...scene was the ballroom of the Chateau Frontenac in Quebec, the province without whose support no party can expect to win in Canada. The occasion: a dinner honoring External Affairs Minister (and Justice Minister) Louis Stephen St. Laurent, Quebec's top-ranking politician in the Dominion Parliament. While some 800 party big& littlewigs whooped it up from the floor. Prime Minister King, as a gesture to Quebec, spoke ten minutes in French before switching to English. He pleaded with Minister St. Laurent to drop his intentions to retire. (The Minister would probably agree.) Then, after some pats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: POLITICS: The P.M. Attacks | 12/9/1946 | See Source »

...explained that the banquet was behind schedule and that it was about time for Minister St. Laurent to go on the air. For the balance of the P.M.'s speech Canadians were forced to turn to their daily newspapers. There they learned that Mackenzie King had whacked Quebec's politicians, notably Premier Maurice Duplessis and his Union Nationale, which has shown little love for the Liberals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: POLITICS: The P.M. Attacks | 12/9/1946 | See Source »

Family Line. In Drummondville, Quebec, two brothers arrested for robbing a jewelry store identified themselves as Frank and Jesse James...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 2, 1946 | 12/2/1946 | See Source »

...born Mr. Johnson, a West Point graduate, left Marathon to rejoin the U.S. Army, participated in Allied strategic planning at Cairo, Yalta and Quebec, got the Legion of Merit for helping get supplies across the Hump to China. Last fall Colonel Johnson asked Marathon to give him back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: The Colonel & the Company | 12/2/1946 | See Source »

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