Word: raynault
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chances were good that the voters would give it to him. Montreal's solid citizens were worried. They were backing stubby little Adhemar Raynault, who had been Mayor while Houde was interned. He had done an honest but uninspired job of presiding over Montreal's 99-man council. But Mayor Raynault, mindful of Houde's colorful personality and his record as an anticonscriptionist, was on the defensive. Said he: "This is not the time nor the place nor the moment to say whether my opponent was right in 1940." Answered Houde: "In the present struggle...
...panier, who polled only 1,027 votes less than Mayor J. Adhemar Raynault, has a long record of civic activities and achievements. In the last war he was co-chairman of Quebec's Victory War Loan Campaign...
...response of Canada's French-speaking citizens to the war effort has in fact been remarkable and deserving of fuller credit and recognition. Mayor Raynault is himself a veteran of the last war and there are others whose leadership is based on high principles and abhorrence of the Hitler regime...
...ADHEMAR RAYNAULT...
Labor groaned at his election, called him a "tool of the power trust." More important, Montreal suspected that Mayor Raynault was a political stalking horse for Maurice Le Noblet Duplessis, Quebec boss of the conservatives. Duplessis, no friend of Great Britain, lost his provincial premiership and control of the Legislature in the first flush of Canada's war enthusiasm a year ago, but is struggling for a comeback. He represents a great body of French Canadians who are getting almost as wary of World War II as they were of World War I (when there were ugly antidraft riots...