Word: montreal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Arthur Lehman fellowship to Morton R. Godine, Montreal, Canada...
Died. Sir Charles W. Lindsay, 83, blind Canadian philanthropist, a piano-tuner who built up a $2,000,000 musical instrument business, was knighted in 1935 for his donations and services to the blind; of paralysis; in Montreal...
This morning a member of our family was talking to one of his customers who arrived yesterday in Montreal from England on a Canadian liner. He was told that the gentleman had himself seen the missing German liner Bremen towed into a British port (either north of England or in Scotland, but the latter probably correct) over two weeks ago with the name plates and a few other identifying features already removed...
Onetime newspaperman (for two years Parliamentary correspondent for the Montreal Gazette), Banker MacDonnell is no amateur, no fuddy-duddy. After Munich last year he composed 36 lines of blank verse on Chamberlain. Excerpt: . . . the butt of every neutral gibe; And stupid in the eyes of arrogance. . . . He took a great, intrepid, lonely step, Biding his time amid the arctic night Of calumny and ridicule and fear, With little company...
...tycoon as it was cruel to 1,450 Canadian and U. S. travelers who sought last week to get home from thunderous Europe. In the 13,581-ton S. S. Athenia of the Donaldson Atlantic Line (affiliate of Cunard-White Star) they embarked at Glasgow, Belfast and Liverpool for Montreal. At 8:59 p. m. Sunday, about 200 mi. west of the Hebrides, a mortal explosion suddenly rocked and ripped the Athenia's, hull, killed perhaps 100 passengers & crew, started her sinking fast. All hands got safely into lifeboats. One of the first ships to reach the rescue scene...