Word: montreal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, after the Black Hawks had swooped down on their three successive adversaries (third-place Montreal Canadiens, second-place New York Americans, top-ranking Toronto Maple Leafs, and snatched the Stanley Cup from under their blinking eyes, jeers changed to cheers. William Joseph Stewart was hailed as the "miracle man of hockey." the No. 1 sport figure...
Once he worked for the Pennsylvania. Then he was president of Baltimore & Ohio, and after that of Rock Island. In 1907 Harriman picked him for Delaware & Hudson, which ran 870 miles "from nowhere to nowhere" (meaning from Wilkes-Barre, Pa. to Montreal). He already was head of a "right of way and two streaks of rust"-Kansas City Southern, from Kansas City to Port Arthur, Texas. Before long they were both making good money. Then nothing more happened till Harriman died and the Interstate Commerce Commission began talking consolidation...
...Attorney General (Premier Maurice Duplessis ) may have any individual's home raided, any organization's office raided and padlocked, on the strength of his belief that it is disseminating Communism (TIME, Nov. 22). Most unfortunate recent victim of the Padlock Law was a Jewish Cultural Circle in Montreal whose 950-volume library was gutted by police, 800 books being confiscated as looking suspicious -they were in Yiddish and Hebrew...
...school education (and an "expense account") by playing hockey at Iroquois Falls for the Abitibi Paper Co., which made a practice of rounding up the best available amateurs to keep its employes in good temper during a long Canadian winter. He went to McGill University while playing for the Montreal Amateur Athletic Association. After his team won the Allan Cup, Canada's No. 1 amateur trophy, Goalie Kerr turned professional, joined the Montreal Maroons, from whom the Rangers bought...
Manager of the Rangers is silver thatched, 54-year-old Lester Patrick. Patrick has been a name known to hockey fame since the early days of the century. Trained on Montreal's corner-lot rinks, where the game was played with tin cans and tree-branches, Lester Patrick went on to star at McGill University.* In 1909, the year after the sport was first professionalized, he became the most publicized player in Canada when he got $3,000 for playing twelve games for the famed Renfrew Millionaires...