Word: montreal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Montreal...
Last week CBS gave listeners a chance to hear some of the superb talent that few advertisers dare to sponsor. From Montreal came the rich voice of Marian Anderson, from Hollywood the mean rhythms of Duke Ellington, from Manhattan one of the jaunty routines of the world's No. i tap dancer, Bill Robinson. Among others who crowded a lively hour were Trumpeter Louis Armstrong, Actor Canada Lee (see p. 76), Violinist Eddie South. Of all the performers only three had sponsored berths in radio: Eddie Anderson, the Rochester of the Jack Benny show, Band Leader John Kirby...
Professor of Genetics McGill University Montreal...
...Norwegian Government requisitioned all Norwegian ships in Allied and neutral waters totaling about 1,000 ships of 4,000,000 tons. The Norwegian Shipping & Trade Mission, under a shipping director, was established, and this mission later moved to London. Branch offices have been established in New York, San Francisco, Montreal and Halifax. All Norwegian ships are operated by the Mission, they are manned with Norwegian sailors, and they are all proudly flying their Norwegian flag. It is true that most Norwegian ships are chartered by the British Government, and the income enables the Norwegian Government to meet its debts...
...population) in a day of prayer for "victory"-in definite contrast to earlier prayers which were merely for "peace." The action offered even more concrete encouragement to the British, for Cardinal Villeneuve, probably the most influential French Canadian, by himself celebrating a votive High Mass for victory in Montreal's famed old Notre Dame Church and afterwards reviewing a parade of French-Canadian troops, gave the Church's full blessing to Britain's and Canada's war. Other Canadians, who know that the policy of the Quebec hierarchy has always been ultramontane, hoped fervently that this...