Word: montreal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, less than a month after stormy Camillien Houde was elected mayor of Montreal, came a move to oust him from his $10,000-a-year job. One Léo Doré, identified only as a truck driver and obviously acting for someone else, filed a petition in superior court to have Mayor Houde's election annulled...
...knack of piling on pressure at the proper moment makes a man like Hector ("Toe") Blake hard to beat-at hockey, poker, or a business deal. The Montreal Canadiens' veteran left-winger (and poker player) is old enough (31) by peacetime hockey standards to be heading for the minors, but he still has plenty of the know-how that brought him the point-making crown back...
Russia was using tanks built in Montreal. Chinese soldiers fought with Toronto-made Bren guns. The British Army rolled on trucks from Oshawa, Ontario. U.S. pilots flew in Curtiss Helldivers from Fort William. The wheat from the great prairies, the salmon from British Columbia's deep blue inlets and cod from Nova Scotia's offshore fisheries fed Britain...
Reassigned to Washington as Minister-Counselor, he soon picked up important extracurricular jobs. He was named chairman of the United Nations Interim Commission on Food and Agriculture, the potent supplies committee of UNRRA. and last summer was chairman of UNRRA's Montreal meeting. His big job now will be to press upon the U.S. Canada's claims for an effective voice in any world-security organization (see above...
...before D-day to lead resistance groups, sabotage German communications, war plants, defenses, and generally help to prepare the way for the Allied invaders. One of them, 22-year-old Major Pierre Chasse of Quebec City, captured more than 6,000 Germans. Another, Captain Guy d'Artois of Montreal, was followed into France by his wife, who was sent into the country on a separate mission. They were reunited in Paris...