Word: taschereau
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...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...
...biggest turnouts of voters in Quebec history went to the polls last week and returned the eleven-year-old government of foxy, popular Liberal Premier Louis Alexandre Taschereau with a smashing majority. Even the Liberals were surprised...
...Sainte-Marie, Montreal. Since then he has shot from post to post, winning not only the mayoralty of Montreal but the leadership of the Conservative Party in the province. In his drive for the Premiership he has stumped Quebec all summer hurling accusations of gross extravagance at Premier Taschereau, blaming the Liberals for everything from unemployment to an attempt to assassinate him, Camillien Houde. He had one cureall: Government loans at 2% to Quebec farmers. Canadians flocked to listen to him. Impressed editors prophesied that if he did not win the election he would pare the Liberal majority...
...conference's opinion was expressed in a report published after their conference: "The publishers are in possession of no facts that lead them to believe that an increase [in newsprint price] is warranted on an economic basis." From Toronto came a report, quickly denied by Premier Taschereau, that the price-rise policy would be reconsidered by Canada's pulpsters...