Word: quebecs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Westmount, Quebec...
...said they thought political union a fine idea, but "not yet." Quebec's free-thinking Senator Telesphore Damien Bouchard believed in "closer and closer relations." John L. McDougall, Queen's University economist, neatly sidestepped: "Weight of isolationist opinion in the United States is [such] that I think the question inopportune. . . ." AILothers replied with a flat negative...
...Canada at week's end, there was but one real strike-at St. Jerome, Quebec, where 800 rubber workers walked out of the Dominion Rubber Company plant in a jurisdictional squabble between the Synthetic Rubber Workers Union and the International Rubber Workers of America. The 800 strikers were .032% of Canada's 2,488,000 potential strikers...
Elie Lescot, suddenly deposed president of French-speaking Haiti, turned up 1) in Miami, 2) in French-speaking Quebec, declared that now he felt quite at home...
...speaking Canada's conception of the perfect French Canadian. Handsome, dapper, with close-cropped hair that has turned from black to grey since he entered the Cabinet, he looks like a storybook Frenchman. Yet not even the most suspicious outsider can find in him the slightest trace of Quebec provincialism...