Word: res
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Maman, as pretty as ever at 48, thought most about le réveillon. One by one, she cooked the traditional dishes. There was bouillon to thaw the family out when they returned from Mass (the big beef bone was already in the pot). There were tourtières (spicy pork pies), rillettes (pork tidbits to be eaten with bread or thrown into the mouth like candy), croutons (crusty bread browned in pork fat), twelve dozen sugared beignets (doughnuts), tete a fromage (headcheese). Soon the kitchen, then the whole ten-room apartment on Fraser Street, was fragrant with the odor...
Outlanders In. Formed by New York's Ladenburg Thalmann & Co., and Lazard Frères & Co. (Phelps Dodge's Louis Gates, and David Rockefeller, youngest son of John D. Rockefeller Jr., came in later), American Anglo had an option to buy a one-third interest in any projects launched by able Bob Hersov. The Americans had put up $5,000,000, had agreed to ante up more as the need arose...
...SOLBERT Brigadier General, Res. Rochester...
...thin Liberal majority in the House of Commons (now 127 seats against 117 for the combined Opposition). It also seemed to indicate a brightened party future. The Liberals, after three by-election defeats in a row, now had won two straight (in Cartier and in Riche-lieu-Verchères last December). In Ottawa, Liberal masterminds sighed with relief...
...Richelieu-Verchėres by-election in Quebec was the showdown. Having lost three by-elections in a row, the Liberal Party had to win this one. Otherwise there was talk that Prime Minister Mackenzie King might soon call a general election, which the Liberals were by no means sure they could...