Word: quebecs
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...there were few signs of the disease on the eastern seaboard. Only large city stricken was Montreal, Quebec, where many factories and business houses were closed or on part time...
Labor groaned at his election, called him a "tool of the power trust." More important, Montreal suspected that Mayor Raynault was a political stalking horse for Maurice Le Noblet Duplessis, Quebec boss of the conservatives. Duplessis, no friend of Great Britain, lost his provincial premiership and control of the Legislature in the first flush of Canada's war enthusiasm a year ago, but is struggling for a comeback. He represents a great body of French Canadians who are getting almost as wary of World War II as they were of World War I (when there were ugly antidraft riots...
Grandmother knew stories about the Old French War too, in which Maine men made British officers' eyes bug by capturing impregnable Louisburg. In the American Revolution, Benedict Arnold led Maine men through the blinding blizzards to attack Quebec. With him went two of Kenneth Roberts' great-great-grandfathers. And there was the persecution of the Tories by the rebels...
Novelist Tarkington, one of the kindliest and most helpful writers in the busi ness, soothed and encouraged Suppliant Roberts. Trouble was, he said, that he had the makings of two fine novels, maybe even three or four. Let Roberts write the story of the Quebec expedition first...
...When she came to work for him, Roberts warned her, "Before I'm through with a book, you'll think I'm the worst stinker that ever lived. But you'll never be fired." She has lived through three books, Trending into Maine, March to Quebec and Wiswell, has also (at Gourmet Roberts' suggestion) written one of her own -a recipe book called Good Maine Food. Third member of the Roberts household is small, wellread, tranquil Mrs. Roberts, who used to do the secretarial work Niece Mosser does...