Word: montreal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...there still have been none because Canada stubbornly insisted that Montreal must be the western terminus of the projected route. Last week this final obstacle to transatlantic service was removed when Colonel John Monroe Johnson, Assistant U. S. Secretary of Commerce, announced in Washington that Canada had finally knuckled under and that the U. S., Great Britain and Canada had ironed out their difficulties...
Cocking a purposeful eye across the border at John L. Lewis (see p. 17), His Majesty's diligent Crown Prosecutor Oscar Gagnon declared in Montreal last week: "Sitdown strikes are illegal in Canada. If one move is made to break any Canadian law, Lewis or anyone else will be taken into custody...
...York Rangers, professional hockey team: their two-out-of-three game series against the favored Montreal Maroons, for the right to play the Detroit Red Wings for the Stanley Cup and hockey's world championship; 1-to-0 and 4-to-0; at New York, then Montreal...
...third in gold alone. The total of dividend payments by Dominion mines more than tripled. Mining now ranks ahead of lumber and newsprint as the most important Dominion industry outside of agriculture. And the Toronto Stock Exchange, now merged with its old mining rival, not only outstrips the Montreal market in dollar-volume of trading but also exceeds every exchange in North America except New York's "Big Board" and the Curb Exchange. In number of shares traded it even tops the Curb...
...wealth if not in prestige the open-handed Toronto millionaires are a match for Montreal's best. Richest man in Canada is Sir Herbert Samuel Holt, testy, 81-year-old Chairman of the Royal Bank of Canada. An Irishman from Dublin, he got his start in Canadian Pacific Ry., made a fortune in Montreal utilities, another fortune in textiles. Hardboiled, hot tempered, hobbyless, he has been known to pick up an inquisitive newshawk, toss him bodily downstairs...