Word: montreal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Neither before nor during his trial would he talk. Harold Samuel Gerson, 41, Montreal-born Communist spy, preferred to keep his own secrets, though as an engineer in Canada's wartime Munitions Department, he had given away several Canadian state secrets to Russia. Government officials had appealed to him, "as a Canadian citizen, to assist his Government by supplying any information in his possession regarding Soviet espionage." Gerson snapped...
...Montreal, Alexander Navarro Fernandez (or was it Carlos Lados?) from Spain (or was it Austria?) was known as "Count Navarro." He was a dapper little man with hollow cheeks, a dab of grey mustache, and a heel-clicking ballroom manner. He lived here & there, but he liked best the expensive elegance of the Mount Royal Hotel...
Last week all Montreal found out where the Count had gone: to South America. But Venezuela would not keep him. Neither would the Dutch West Indies. He finally turned up by plane at Miami, Fla., and U.S. G-men promptly arrested him. Said the FBI: a Washington lawyer named M. 0. Dunning had advanced $125,000 to help the Count get into the U.S. (Dunning had borrowed on collateral supplied by Sigmund Janas, president of Colonial Airlines, which flies to Montreal.) In return Dunning was to get 10% of the supposed cash. But, said the FBI: Count Navarro was really...
Neither Prime Minister Mackenzie King nor Labor Minister Humphrey Mitchell, both of whom had failed in earlier negotiations, figured publicly in the final talks. The solution was advanced by Frederick Kilbourn, Government-appointed controller of the struck steel plants. In Montreal he conferred unexpectedly with C.I.O. strike leader Charles Millard. Then Millard hurried back to his colleagues in Toronto to report the new offer: a flat 13? raise (10? retroactive to April 1, the remaining 3? to be effective when the strike ended). Other union demands would be referred to a mediator for a decision, subject to National War Labor...
Behind Un Homme is a very real character: Claude-Henri Grignon, 52-year-old writer-producer. When he drops his pen, he becomes the quarrelsome mayor of Ste. Adele, in the Laurentians north of Montreal. There he bosses his 1,200 constituents, fights resort hotel owners for more taxes, butts his head against the steady advance of tourist commercialism which he fears will destroy Ste. Adele's joie de vivre. No one in the Laurentians hates city life more than Claude-Henri. For 15 years he was a failure in Montreal, writing acid critiques and a bad book. Then...