Word: gouin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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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...