Word: quebecs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...September graduates were: John J. Butler '44 of 63 Ellery Street and Lacrosse, Wis; Heinz F. Eichenwald '47 of New York City; Colin F. N. Irving '45 of Brookline; Frank W. Reeb '44, of 371 Harvard Street and Dwight, Ill.; David Z. Robinson '47 of Perkins Hall and Westmount, Quebec; Donald H. Shively '44 of 95 Prescott Street and Upper Montclair, N. J.; Richard A. Silverman '46, of Washington, D. C.; and Charles P. Slitcher '45, of Cambridge...
...Toronto Star went further. It said that the treasures were "securely hidden in a church seven minutes' distance from Cardinal Villeneuve's Palace" in Quebec City...
Engaged. Mary Churchill, 24, youngest of Winston's three daughters, who rose from private to junior commander (U.S. equivalent: captain) in Britain's ATS (Auxiliary Territorial Service), served as her father's aide at the 1943 Quebec Conference; and Captain Christopher Soames, 26, Assistant Military Attache at the British Embassy in Paris; in London...
...squatters moved in on Montreal last week. And the Communists moved in on the squatters. Leader of the Montreal squatters, who took over two empty gambling joints, was Henri Gagnon, 36, Quebec's No. 1 Communist and an organizer of the Communist Labor Progressive Party. The Montreal squatting movement, like others in Canada, was born out of the attempts of non-Communist veterans to find living quarters. At the first Montreal meeting, Gagnon appeared, had himself elected president of the newly formed Homeless Veterans' League, and led the squats...
Premier Maurice Duplessis, who hates and fears Communists, cried excitedly: "It is part of a worldwide Communist plot to disrupt democratic institutions." But the Premier, who is empowered under Quebec's Padlock Law to close any establishment in which subversive activities are being carried on, could not move against the squatters until the courts rule on whether Gagnon's squat constituted forcible entry...