Word: montreal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Montreal, Paul LaFontaine, a Progressive Conservative organizer, let a plump cat out of the bag. He revealed (and John Bracken later partly confirmed) that his pro-conscriptionist party had made a secret deal with the anti-conscriptionist "independents" to support 30 of their candidates in Quebec. Behind this incongruous arrangement was the obvious hope that after the election the combined strength of the Progressive Conservatives and the "independents" would be great enough to unseat Prime Minister King, permit formation of a Progressive Conservative Government. A historical precedent buttressed this hope: a similar deal had worked in 1911, when Conservatives...
WILLIAM G. BRAYLEY Ex-Flying Officer, R.C.A.F. Montreal...
...newspaper [in Montreal] published a critic and not so nice like every one else. . . . Immagine, this said that I ... am lower of ... Julia Culp!" From Havana he wrote: "... A newspaper say a good thinks and in the same day say bad thinks." His love letters might have been a literal translation of an aria: "My Big Piece of Gold," he wrote from tour, "you make me feel so emotionated that I start to cry again! I reed you and skratce my head because it seams that all my breans . . . is full of you." Of five-month-old Gloria: "Then...
...looked like the hottest trio in all hockey history. From the season's start, the Montreal Canadiens' forward line had bewildered National Hockey League goalies with its machine-gun procession of shots. When the season ended this week, the trio had rolled up a dazzling, all-time scoring record of 104 goals, giving the Canadiens the League victory (won 38, tied 4, lost 8). Individual performances by Right Wing Maurice ("The Rocket") Richard, Center Elmer ("Ski Jump") Lach and Left Wing Hector ("Toe") Blake were just as brilliant as the teamwork: Richard had zinged a record-breaking total...
...Frank Boucher-Bun Cook combination of the late '20s and early '30s; the Canadiens' superb Howie Morenz-Aurel Joliat-Johnny Gagnon trio in 1932-33; the Boston Bruins' famed "Kraut Line" of 1939-40 (Milt Schmidt-Bobbie Bauer-Woodrow Wilson Dumart). By any N.H.L. standard, Montreal's tricky skaters looked great...