Word: taschereau
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Perfunctory was the beating of Conservatives in Quebec in August 1931 by ever-victorious Liberal Provincial Premier Louis Taschereau, grand old French-Canadian boss. In June 1932 the Conservatives did not feel too badly when they failed to oust the Progressive Liberal Government of farmer-radical Manitoba, but since then the Conservative Generalissimo at Ottawa has known nothing but rout after sickening rout. His Liberal rival, onetime Dominion Premier William Lyon...
...complete. Conservatives in the Ontario Legislature dropped from 84 seats to 17 while Liberals who had had 15 seats were romping home with 65. Rejoicing at the failure of any third party to make an effective score, Quebec's sly old French-Canadian boss, grey-whiskered Liberal Premier Taschereau exclaimed: "In two provinces separated by vast space . . . results showed that new or third parties have no appeal. . . . My hearty congratulations to Messrs. Hepburn and Gardiner...
...short, 200-lb. French-Canadian a Quebec Province assemblyman at 33, mayor of Montreal at 39. But, like the frog that tried to blow himself up into a bull, Camillien Houde burst himself when he tried to become Premier of the Province three years ago. After foxy old Premier Taschereau had unmercifully beaten him, he could not even get himself re-elected mayor of his own Montreal. He lost his leadership of Quebec's Opposition Party, the Conservatives, and last year he flamboyantly repudiated the Party's leaders. Camillien Houde was far from finished. He was still...
...know, may garner the fullest harvest for both Canadian and U. S. investors, Banker Bullock has assembled an amazing roster of Canadian potency for his directorate. With him on the board will sit President Arthur Blaikie Purvis of Canadian Industries, Ltd., "the du Pont of Canada"; Hon. Louis Alexandre Taschereau, foxy Prime Minister of Quebec since 1920; Sir Robert Laird Borden, Wartime Prime Minister of the Dominion and head of Barclay's Bank of Canada; Norman James Dawes, head of National Breweries, Ltd.; Hon. Charles Avery Dunning, a power in the prairie provinces; Hon. Charles Colquhoun Ballantyne, head...
...Canada scoffed the Ten Eyck idea. Declared Oscar Earnest Fleming of the Canadian Deep Waterways & Power Association: "The people of Quebec and the Maritimes are intensely British and would object to being transferred like a lot of cattle." Quebec's Premier Taschereau, long a seaway critic, picked up the Ten Eyck proposal and patriotically brandished it as one good reason why Canada should reject the St. Lawrence treaty. At St. John's, Que., the Chamber of Commerce unanimously demanded that the U. S. give Canada all of Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine north of the 45° parallel in exchange...