Word: taschereau
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Louis Alexandre Taschereau, 70, for 16 years Premier of Quebec, ousted last year (TIME, June 22). narrowly escaped drowning when his boat tipped over during a fishing trip in Northern Quebec. Clinging to his upsidedown craft until he had removed his mackinaw and high boots, he swam ashore...
...tightest little political machines in North America is the Liberal Government of Canada's Province of Quebec, which has had an uninterrupted, 39-year run of power. Head man since 1920 has been wily, wiry Premier Hon. Louis Alexandre Taschereau, now 69, born to an aristocratic French family, accustomed to lead Quebec's backward, French-speaking farmers. His father was a Canadian Supreme Court Justice, his mother's father a Quebec Lieutenant Governor. His family gave the Catholic Church a cardinal, and Premier Taschereau, like France's great 17th Century Cardinal Richelieu, has prodigious habits...
Last November his party won the elections by the unprecedently narrow margin of a majority of six in the Quebec Legislature. Allied with the Conservative opposition was the new reform Liberal party, Action Liberale Nationale, of Paul Gouin, son of Taschereau's predecessor as Premier. Since then Conservative Maurice Duplessis, Opposition leader, has pried into the Liberal's solidified habits of graft, got the Legislature to start a Public Accounts Committee investigation. The committee was heavily packed with old-guard Liberals but Representative Duplessis was far too smart for them. At last week's committee meeting...
...read a letter from Father Antoine to his son complaining of the annual "annoyance" given him by Government bank inspectors who did not at once understand this arrangement. If this nagging did not stop, said Father Antoine, he might switch his account to another bank. To these revelations, Antoine Taschereau last week replied that he was "not ashamed" of so commonplace a procedure. He formally wrote the Government a check for its back interest but asked a superior court judge for a decision as to whether the Government ought not tear up his check...
Nevertheless, even before M. Duplessis began reading the letters, Committee Chairman Leon Casgrain, at the instigation of the Premier, forehandedly announced that Antoine Taschereau had already resigned his job as legislative accountant. Next day, again beating M. Duplessis to the headlines, Premier Taschereau accepted the resignation of doddering, 71-year-old Deputy Attorney General Charles Lanctot...