Word: montreal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Three panics (1873, 1893, 1907) and two depressions (1920-22, 1929-?) taught Professor Edwin Grant Conklin the wisdom which he imparted to the people of Montreal last week. Hard times & unemployment toughen the human race, said he. "Some of the weaker, according to the law of Nature, will naturally die under the stress of the times. Others will not propagate their kind. The strong and hardy will survive and reproduce. Thus the human race will be strengthened...
...Pyle's second transcontinental footrace, lost a six-day race against a horse in Philadelphia. He tried prizefighting, long-distance roller-skating, driving a taxi (his first profession). Last winter he strapped snowshoes on his serviceable feet and finished seventh in the three-day snowshoe race from Quebec to Montreal. Last week reporters were not much surprised when they found Joie Ray in a Newark, N. J. dancehall, where a marathon dance had been going on for nine weeks. Ray, with his partner, a 19-year-old Alice Krug, was one of ten competitors left. Said...
...race which Ray re members with a shade less satisfaction than the first ? he beat De Mar in a marathon at Long Beach, L. I. Last week, having gained ten pounds in the marathon dance, he announced his intention of enter ing the Quebec to Montreal snowshoe race, in which, last year, his face was frozen...
...from a British standpoint, nothing could be more deplorable. In St. John's one night last week harassed Newfoundland Premier Sir Richard Anderson Squires sat up to wee hours bickering and dickering with representatives of a syndicate of four Canadian banks. Was it a sale? Next day in Montreal, Canada, where most of Newfoundland's fiscal news breaks first, eager newshawks pounced on Sir Percy Thompson, deputy chairman of the British Board of Inland Revenue recently "loaned" to Newfoundland. Waving away all question of the sale or lease of Labrador, Sir Percy announced that a loan (he would...
...have been in politics too long to be surprised when misquoted or misrepresented. I suppose I have too much sense of humor to be puritanical concerning a joke. The story in TIME was inexact. For instance I did not make a speech and I never made a speech in Montreal, and of course, I did not in Montreal or elsewhere say 'To hell with Mr. Volstead...