Word: montreal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Montreal police strike, said Sullivan, was "secretly financed by the Communist Party, [which] furnished $9,000." In the current Cartier by-election campaign in Montreal (to select a Member of Parliament to succeed Communist and traitor Fred Rose), "all available forces of the C.S.U. in Montreal are being thrown" behind the Communist candidate...
...Miriam Chapin, sister of Curtice Hitchcock, New York publisher, came across Bonheur in Montreal. When she had read Author Roy's story of life in St. Henri, a smoky slum section of Montreal, she mailed a copy to her brother. Reynal & Hitchcock agreed to publish it. They changed the title to The Tin Flute, and had the book translated into English. Then New York's Literary Guild, whose million members make it the largest book club in the world, read the manuscript. It announced that The Tin Flute will be its May selection, the first work...
...Arizona's mines, with time out for service in the state legislature, he moved up to Washington and the House of Representatives. He was there when F.D.R. met him and marked him for his Budget Director. Since 1934, he has been vice president of American Cyanimid, principal of Montreal's McGill University, and president of Mutual...
Ouvrez la Porte. Maurice Richard is the left-handed right wing of Montreal's league-leading Les Canadiens. He has made a runaway of this season's scoring race (with 36 goals, 22 assists), though for a while one rival club assigned two men to guard him - as frank a tribute as baseball's right-side shift against Batsman Ted Williams. They gave up that strategy when Rocket-Richard decoyed his defenders out of the play to give his mates a better shot at the cage...
...partisan Montreal, fans speak of The Rocket in the same breath with hockey's immortal Howie Morenz. Other hockey towns, which have heckled him by calling out "Ouvrez la porte, Richard," are now ready to agree that he is more than a wartime wonder...