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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Eight years later, he came back with the money ($1,850,000 put up by Gold Mine Owner William Wright), and bought the Globe. He also bought the Globe's morning rival, the Mail & Empire, and merged the two papers into the Globe & Mail, now Canada's biggest (circ. 218,481) morning newspaper, and its best...
...boys* had started out by stealing a .30-30 rifle from an unlocked car. Then they broke into a truck, stole cigarettes. Thus equipped, they headed out of town, hid in a ditch, and waited. Soon a car came along. One of the boys, masked with a handkerchief, sprang up, fired a warning shot. The car did not halt. There was another shot, a scream from the car, a slithering to a stop. Farmer James Millar Watson, 62, had been mortally wounded. A week later, when one of the boys confessed, police took them to jail...
With the Telegram under McCullagh, some of Toronto's politicians were as shaky as the Tely's employees about their future. When he first took charge of the Globe & Mail, McCullagh supported the Liberal Party, though he often needled the government. The final break came in World War II over reinforcements for Canadian troops abroad. Ever since, McCullagh has been plugging the Progressive Conservative line on his editorial page, has become a power in Tory circles. Ownership of the staunchly Tory Telegram makes him still more important in the party. Said one worried Tory: "It's going...
Said Crown Prosecutor Arthur McClellan when the boys came to trial: "I think these two unfortunate boys [both lacked normal home life] have been strongly influenced by what they have been reading." Judge Charles Kitchen committed the 13-year-old to the Provincial Industrial School for Boys at Port Coquitlam, B.C.; the younger he turned over to the Child Welfare Superintendent at Vancouver. Said Judge Kitchen: "I agree as to the influence of the literature these boys have been subjected to ... A concerted effort should be made to see that this worse, than rubbish is abolished in some...
...Delacroix to the wall so that others could not enjoy it. Invited out to dinner, he insisted that there be no dogs around, and no flowers on the table, lest other guests indulge in sentimentalities. This was the Degas whom the French poet and philosopher Paul Valéry came to know, an old man raging at his enemies and riding alone on the tops of buses...