Word: montreal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...total abstainer, supports restaurants which serve no beer. Mrs. Ida B. Wise Smith, national president of the W. C. T. U. reassured the delegates "we have no objection to tea and coffee. We do have a . . . program against cigarets." Mrs. James Mabon of Montreal sketched the world-use of intoxicating beverages, said "under present conditions the world over not a single child is safe." Mrs. D. Leigh Colvin, W. C. T. U. president for New York and wife of the Prohibition Party's candidate for President of the U. S. last year, censured the U. S. Government for having...
...trial for political offenses and common crimes ranging from pocket-picking to murder, committed before May 20, would be turned out of Cuba's crowded jails. In addition, hundreds of political exiles would be free to return, even onetime (1925-33) President Gerardo ("The Butcher") Machado, now in Montreal where his secretary announced he would be likely to stay. If this move was calculated to throw a scare into Boss Batista's restive Congress it worked too well, for the Senators immediately forgot the budget to shriek that soon Havana would be full of dangerous scalawags and cutthroats...
Because he might wish to appear in sideshows when his baseball days are over, Joseph ("Babe") Denning, Montreal infielder, continued to practice eating light bulbs...
This service was first established on some special trains on the Berlin-Hamburg run. Whether it is still being used I am unable to say, but it was by no means a stunt like the conversation between London, England and tram running from Montreal to Chicago which you mention in your article. The intention of the German Railroads was to establish a regular service...
...service to anywhere when the train is at rest in stations, but nowhere can train travelers telephone beyond the train when it is moving. In Canada some five years ago the Canadian National conducted a stunt whereby a conversation was held between London, England, and a train running between Montreal and Chicago. Regular service proved too costly, was discontinued...