Word: montreal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last half of the history is devoted to the order's expansion in the U. S.-32 houses from Montreal to New Orleans, from Boston to San Francisco. Completed in 1929 was Villa Duchesne, the pride of the order, appropriately built at Clayton, St. Louis suburb, in the heart of the Great Valley...
...shoot at this season, namely the fine record established by last year's sextet. George Ford's team was vanquished only once during a long and strenuous schedule, and then by the best McGill outfit in recent years. Yale, Princeton, and Dartmouth were shellacked twice each. Queens, Toronto, and Montreal, the remaining members of the year old International Intercollegiate Hockey League, were beaten once...
...Frenchman, broke his leg in a northern Ontario gold mine in 1930, was compelled to give up mining engineering, eventually became a journalist. One night last week the blue-eyed, 50-year-old M. Peron was busy in his little office on Ste. Catherine Street in Montreal preparing the next edition of his two-year-old weekly, La Clarté (The Light). Suddenly six provincial police barged in, seized all correspondence and files, evicted Editor Peron and his assistant, stoutly padlocked La Clarte's doors and windows. In M. Peron's modest quarters, Quebec's conservative Premier...
...Montreal general organizer of the socialistic Cooperative Commonwealth Federation, Editor Peron is an avowed Communist but denies his paper is Communistic. Nonetheless, the Duplessis Government had an eye on La Clarté's 5,000 circulation last spring when the stiff "Pad- lock Bill" was passed, empowering the Attorney General (also M. Duplessis) to sequester any premises put to Communist...
Biggest news of the beginning of the new season was the appointment of veteran Player Frank ("King") Clancy to manage the Montreal Maroons, and the accession of William J. ("Bill") Stewart, 42, National League baseball umpire and National League hockey referee, to managership of Major Frederic Mclaughlin's Chicago Blackhawks. Bill Stewart, square-set, affable and bald, preens himself on being one of the least vilified umpires in baseball. He has, however, been mixed up in some fair-to-middling hockey brawls, one of which nearly cost him his arm. While coaching hockey at Milton Academy a decade...