Word: quebecs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Conservatives could not have picked a more conservative leader. Nor could they have chosen one more heartily against Mackenzie King. To keep the support of the potent, close-knit French political bloc in Quebec and Ontario, Mackenzie King has soft-pedaled the question of conscription for overseas service, which in the last months has been brought up with increasing vigor by the all-out-for-Britain citizens of the prairie Provinces and the West. Canadian businessmen oppose the excess-profit taxes, the regulations, the price ceilings that the wartime Government has set. And Canadian labor resents wage ceilings quite...
...Ontario, a tough, loud-talking self-made politico on the lines of the late Huey Long, whose political leitmotiv is making ill-tempered cracks at the leader of the Dominion's Liberal Party, Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King. They know him as a onetime pal of Quebec's smalltime "fascist" Maurice Duplessis, but now 110% for all aid to Britain. They know him as a perennial dark horse who, because of his enmity to King, can never be counted on to take the leading role in the Canadian political picture, but who, because he is a crowd...
Died. Foxhall Parker Keene, 74, onetime leading U.S. poloist, member of the first U.S. international polo team in 1886; at Ayer's Cliff, Quebec...
...Over 100 Quebec mixed marriages have been annulled in the last 33 years. Since there is usually collusion in annulment cases, none was appealed. Last week's appeal was lodged not by the husband or wife but by the Anglican clergyman who married them. He had been attacked for performing the marriage and decided to prove he had a legal as well as a spiritual right to do so. Four of the five judges who upheld him are Roman Catholics...
Editorialized the Quebec Chronicle Telegraph: "It is not for the Catholic Church to impose an inferior status on the clergy of other denominations before the civil law or to penalize innocent parties because one of its own members has failed to respect the canon...