Word: montreal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...used against St. Laurent in his home province of Quebec. Tory campaigners charged that St. Laurent was centralizing power in Ottawa, and thus undermining the autonomy of the predominantly French and Roman Catholic province. In driving home this point, the Tories got help from Liberal-hating independent candidates like Montreal's elephantine Mayor Camillien Houde. Said Houde: "Better for us to have in Ottawa a Protestant prime minister who will defend our rights than a French-speaking Roman Catholic who will betray...
Most hard-boiled boxing fans thought I.B.C. deserved to lose a lot more than that for allowing the likes of La Motta to have a shot at the title. As recently as February, roundheeled Jake had been soundly thrashed in Montreal by a Frenchman named Laurent Dauthuille. A cloud of suspicion still hung over La Motta's fight with Philadelphia's Billy Fox two years ago, which the referee stopped in the fourth because of Jake's feeble performance. About all last week's fight proved was that Cerdan could not whip La Motta with...
...traffic rights at Gander would be withdrawn June 30, but let it be understood that the status quo might be maintained if the U.S. came across with some new concessions. Last week, after a fortnight's negotiations, the U.S. State Department came across. Canada got: ¶ A new Montreal-New York route for the government-owned Trans-Canada Airlines, thus letting T.C.A. tap the richest U.S. traffic center and providing the first competition for Colonial Airlines on Colonial's most lucrative route. ¶ Traffic rights at Tampa and St. Petersburg, which will strengthen T.C.A.'s present Montreal...
...several much less important routes into Canada. Some U.S. airmen were outraged. They complained that their lines had not been permitted to participate in the negotiations, although T.C.A. had. Colonial Airlines' fiery President Sigmund Janas, who has spent 19 years building up traffic on the New York-Montreal route, was the hardest hit. He charged that the agreement had been made at "unprecedented secret and concealed negotiations." Said he: "Nothing more shocking ever has occurred in international aviation diplomacy . . . valuable rights [have been] sold down the river...
...salesman, reporter and make-up man keeps Owner-Editor Sancton hopping. He has also learned to make concessions to the sleepier standards of country journalism. When Royal Canadian Mounties nabbed Quebec's biggest cigarette smuggler in Stanstead County, Sancton filed a story to his old paper in Montreal. Correspondent Sancton scooped Editor Sancton by two days. But Journal readers were more interested in news of abiding matters-the farms, the factories, the water supply and the schools. Says happy Editor Sancton: "You visit a small town and you say, 'This is quaint, this is the Middle Ages...