Word: atholstan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...came out of my long retreat ... to help the Canadian people get rid of a certain class and of attempts at blackmailing public men, Governments and Parliaments in order to secure certain sordid ends . . . that sordid dominion of this group in Quebec which has been exercised by Lord Atholstan and the Montreal Star for 25 years...
Married. The Hon. Alice Graham, daughter of Sir Hugh Graham, Lord Atholstan, owner of the Montreal Daily Star, and Lady Atholstan, to one Marsham Hallward...
...prize for a " medicinal treatment for the effective cure of cancer" offered by Lord Atholstan, Montreal newspaper publisher (TIME, April 7), is attracting world-wide attention. Since the offer was made public, January 2, 1922, in a letter to Sir Arthur Currie, President of McGill University, more than 3,000 claims of cures have been submitted from 40 different nations. Some 400 are from faith healers, auto-suggestionists and other brands of fanatics. Of the others, many are palpably quackish or too weirdly fantastic to warrant investigation. Almost every plant known to botany has been claimed as a specific, with...
There have already been 2,716 applicants for the prize of $100,000 offered last year by Lord Atholstan, of Montreal, for the discovery of a cure for cancer. Claims have come from 41 different countries. Before application the claimants must satisfy a recognized medical faculty or society that there is scientific justification for investigating their "cures...
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