Word: montreal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Montreal...
CANADIAN STOCK RIGGING caused Montreal and Toronto Stock Exchanges to sever relations with Edmonton Stock Exchange. Reason: "unethical" conduct by recently resigned Edmonton Exchange Vice President Marcel A. Miles, who helped peddle stock in Green Bay Mining & Exploration Co. By "false, fraudulent and deceptive literature," charged New York State Attorney General, stock was boosted from 50? to $12.50 a share last year, then dropped to 50? to $1 a share in crash that cost U.S. investors an estimated...
...present time, the varsity's record on the season is 4-0, with wins over McGill, Cornell, Williams, and the Montreal Squash Club...
...lean six-footer, Ed Bronfman has been pushed ahead fast. He started with Seagrams as a teen-aged brewer and blender in Montreal, became his father's assistant after graduating with honors in history from McGill University in 1951. In 1955 he moved to Manhattan as chairman of Joseph E. Seagram & Sons' administrative committee...
Robby was ambitious, yet a little awed after he came off the athletic fields of U.C.L.A. (four letters), and prepped in Kansas City and Montreal before putting on a Brooklyn uniform to become at 28 big-league baseball's first Negro player. To prepare him, his mentor Branch Rickey called him into his office one day, cursed him, swung at him, then spat at him a particularly vile name. "What do you do now, Jackie?" Rickey asked. Robinson replied: "Mr. Rickey, I guess I turn the other cheek." For the next couple of years he played superlative baseball while...