The rolling baritone of Camillien Houde, talking or singing, is a big thing in Montreal. It made a bombastic, short, 200-lb. French-Canadian a Quebec Province assemblyman at 33, mayor of Montreal at 39. But, like the frog that tried to blow himself up into a bull, Camillien Houde burst himself when he tried to become Premier of the Province three years ago. After foxy old Premier Taschereau had unmercifully beaten him, he could not even get himself re-elected mayor of his own Montreal. He lost his leadership of Quebec's Opposition Party, the Conservatives,...
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