Word: val
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, Val invited Chicago's two mayoralty candidates to press conferences. Though tired and busy, the candidates dutifully submitted to 45 minutes of questioning, and then left to await the printed verdict of Val's high-school journalists...
...Pontiac's winner Caouette is a handsome, bespectacled garage manager from Val d'Or, with a flair for oratory and big promises. He plumped for abolition of income taxes on wages of $3,000 a year or less; $20-a-month Government "dividends" for everybody; $60-a-month handouts for all unemployables 21 or over. Like any good Social Creditor, he berated banks, and for homey campaign purposes he gave his party a fine French-Canadian name: L'Union des Electeursc de Pontiac. He spent only $4,500 campaigning, but he wound up with about...
Nebraska's G.O.P. candidate for governor was a World War II veteran with an impressive Scandinavian name: Frederick Valdemar Erastus Peterson. As a lieutenant colonel of the Army Air Forces, 42-year-old Val Peterson spent 24 months in the CBI Theater, supervised air-freight movements over the Hump into China. But unlike many other veteran candidates, he was no newcomer to state politics, nor did he wave the bloody shirt...
...Beloved brethren: A little girl of our diocese, Pierrette Regimbal of Val D'Or, has for a few weeks past drawn upon her and retained the attention of the public. Thousands of persons . . . have lent a credulous ear to . . . strange reports on the child's pretensions. . . . People have cried 'miracle'. . . . Comparisons have gone so far as to compare the girl to Bernadette of Lourdes. . . . We esteem that [this] was, in truth, according her too great an honor...
...Reader Cunningham judge for himself. TIME'S correspondent has visited the uncompleted shrine near Val D'Or, found it busy. The shrine's spring of "holy water" did not suddenly gush forth; it has always been there. Pierrette's most highly regarded "miracle"-restoring speech to the mute son, aged seven, of a local truck driver-is questionable. He was never mute, does not yet talk spontaneously -just repeats words. Says TIME'S correspondent: "The inhabitants of this thriving pioneer mining town [TIME, Sept. 24] now are wondering about a different kind of future...