Word: montreal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...four major and several minor parties running for 63 seats and nothing certain except that Premier Richard Gavin Reid of the United Farmers Party, which came in on a landslide in 1921, would go out into limbo as a victim of Depression. When returns began to trickle in, when Montreal's rock-ribbed conservative Place d'Armes - Canada's financial centre - learned that 57 of the 63 seats in Alberta's Legislature had been won by henchmen of Social Crediteer Aberhart their astonishment was as vast as their dismay. Only a very few Canadian tycoons took...
...stalemate. Last week this thought kept holders of Alberta bonds from dumping them overboard. All Canada's great banks and nationally spread industries held emergency directors' meetings. Rich Albertans, as soon as election returns were known, began rapidly transferring their funds from the province to Montreal and Toronto...
...doubles championships- men's, women's, mixed, veterans' and father & son. The father & son tournament was distinguished by the performance of the Davis Cup's donor, 56-year-old Dwight Davis who, with 27-year-old Dwight Davis Jr., beat R. N. Watt & Son of Montreal, holders of the title for the last two years, in the second round. William J. Clothier, U. S. singles champion in 1906, and William J. Clothier Jr., a Harvard sophomore, were the new titleholders. Those veterans among veterans, Frederick C. ("Pop") Baggs and Dr. William Rosenbaum, were finally ousted...
...rumor of an uncle who had died six years ago in South Africa leaving a $17,000,000 fortune burst on the tenement home of Abraham Starr, 58, impecunious Polish-Jewish ironworker, his wife Leah, his seven grown children and brood of grandchildren. The facts were that a Montreal lawyer had seen in the hands of a stranger a Polish newspaper listing the will of one Harry Koslack or Kozack who had bequeathed at least $1,000,000, maybe $6,000,000, to his sister who had married a man named Stareselsky. There were Starrs in Montreal who had changed...
Married, William Robert ("Bill") Bonthron, 22, Princeton miler; and Marion McLennan Lineaweaver, of Princeton, N. J.; in Montreal...