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...when the mania exhausted his patience, Quebec's Premier Alexandre Taschereau ordered provincial police to raid the halls where marathons were being held. So far there has been no hint of another crackdown. A few Catholic priests have preached about irreligious berceurs who stick to their rockers and miss Sunday Mass. But Premier Maurice Duplessis, who was at home last week coddling a cold, was reportedly planning no action. "What could Mr. Duplessis say?" asked Solicitor General Antoine Rivard. "He's rocking himself at the moment...
Suspended from the ceiling of the basilica, high above the Archbishop's head, were the red hats of his four immediate predecessors as archbishop of Quebec, the late Cardinals Taschereau, Bégin, Rouleau and Villeneuve. Quebeckers felt sure that some day soon their new archbishop would receive the red hat himself...
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...
...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...