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Word: montreal (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Division last week, the Toronto Maple Leafs were overwhelming favorites to keep their present No. 1 position. Fast, heavy, durable and daring, the Maple Leafs' two most spectacular assets are Forwards Harvey Jackson and Charles Conacher, who lead the League in scoring goals. In second place were the Montreal Maroons, a clever team whose crack defenseman is Charles Conacher's older brother, Lionel. Fighting for third place last week were the Montreal Canadiens, who last summer traded their best players for younger ones who have thus far failed to justify themselves, and the New York Americans, an erratic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Hockey: Mid-Season | 2/11/1935 | See Source »

...Montreal, the Maroons interrupted a slump by beating the St. Louis Eagles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Hockey: Mid-Season | 2/11/1935 | See Source »

...Detroit, the Montreal Canadiens got three goals in the first ten minutes, then let the Detroit Red Wings catch up and finally tie the score...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Hockey: Mid-Season | 2/11/1935 | See Source »

...opposite of his predecessor in temperament, appearance and technique, Lorne Chabot is a bulky, silent, languid French Canadian. Reared in Montreal, he enlisted in the Royal Canadian Field Artillery at 16, fought at Passchendaele and Vimy Ridge. After the War he joined the Royal Northwest Mounted Police. His professional hockey career started in 1926 when he signed up with the New York Rangers. The next season it nearly ended when, in the playoffs for the Stanley Cup, a flying puck cut his eye. The Rangers' manager, Lester Patrick, playing goal for the first time in his life, finished...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Hockey: Mid-Season | 2/11/1935 | See Source »

...Reform hinted in the Speech was the Bennett New Deal, a hodge-podge of Rooseveltisms blended with reform proposals lifted bodily from Canada's Liberal Party, the opposition led by former Premier William Lyon Mackenzie King. In a Montreal speech two nights before Parliament opened at Ottawa, Premier Bennett, one of Canada's wealthiest capitalists, denounced prosperous ex-Premier King as "entrenched behind the forces of Capitalism!" Amazed Liberals accused the Conservative Premier "not only of stealing our clothes but of trying to wish his old clothes off on us." Conservative henchmen were jubilant. Resigned until recently...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Hard Times Broken | 1/28/1935 | See Source »

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