Word: montreal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...impression that they would be less nationalistic than the Tories. Yet Gordon's budget called for a special 30% "takeover" tax designed to discourage U.S. investors from extending their control over Canadian business. Among those most alarmed was Eric Kierans, 49, the bluntly outspoken president of the Montreal and Canadian stock exchanges, who thought the exchanges would be jeopardized. He got busy, worked up a scorching five-page letter to Gordon, and then set off to Ottawa to protest in person, with five of the exchanges' governors...
...have just about had enough from Canada." In effect, the letter called the tax discriminatory, prohibitive and unworkable-"complete and utter nonsense." It was, he continued, "an axe to murder the record of trust and confidence that has grown up over the years." As Kierans talked to Gordon, his Montreal office distributed 1,200 copies of the letter in English, and another 600 in French, to every company president with shares listed on the exchanges and to every Cabinet minister...
...Insiders' Newsletter for the soft-goods trade traces to the end of World War II, when Advertising Manager Monroe Green, 57, sent his salesmen after the Times's neighbors in the Seventh Avenue Garment District. Even after manufacturers began their exodus to the South and to Montreal in search of cheaper labor, they continued advertising, just to keep up with the competition. Now, says Green, thousands of women who turn to the magazine "read the ads as news...
...Practically a God." He got his chance in April 1959 when Castro visited Montreal on his famous trip to the U.S. and Canada. There to meet Fidel at the airport was Schoeters, a one-man student welcoming committee from the University of Montreal. Three months later, in answer to Castro's plea for "technicians," Schoeters, his wife and ten university students flew to Cuba. For two weeks they toured the island as Castro's guests. On his return, Schoeters excitedly informed friends that "Castro is practically a god." There was another trip in 1960, and this time...
Death in a Garbage Can. One of the first dramatic acts was to set fire to the women's washroom in the Mount Royal railroad station outside Montreal last February. "The revolution has started," said one of the arsonists as he watched the flames. They then sent a communique to Montreal newspapers declaring their mission: "To completely destroy, by systematic sabotage, all the symbols of colonial institutions." From arson the band moved to bombing-the creation of public impact by dynamite. FLQ targets were such "colonial" institutions as armories, Royal Canadian Mounted Police and army buildings. On April...