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...highest building in Montreal is the dazzling white granite home of Sun Life Assurance Co. In that building, president of the company as his father was before him, sits Thomas Bassett Macaulay. Life is peaceful and secure to Mr. Macaulay. He is an important figure in Montreal's closely-knit tycoonarchy. Sometimes he lunches at the St. James or Mount Royal Club with stocky, dapper Edward Wentworth Beatty of the C. P. R. or grave Sir Herbert Samuel Holt of the Royal Bank of Canada, both directors of his company. Summers he spends at Hudson Heights, raising fine Holsteins...
Because Sun is the world's biggest investor in common stocks, because Mr. Macaulay repeatedly states his belief that 1929 prices will return, much discussion, not all of it complimentary, has centred upon the company and its chief. But just as the heavenly sun has been impervious to arrows launched at it, Canada's Sun has sat serene with its $624,000,000 in assets, disregarded the yapping of critics...
...SCANDAL MONGER ? Emile Gauvreau?Macaulay...
...better of Voltaire over a bill for firewood. Mary Berry, last survivor of the 18th Century, who "could even make Frenchmen hold their tongues; she could even make Englishmen talk." Strachey pays his unrespectful but never impertinent respects to six fellow-historians: Hume, Gibbon, Macaulay, Carlyle, Froude, Creighton. He calls Macaulay's brisk rhetoric "that style which, with its metallic exactness and its fatal efficiency, was certainly one of the most remarkable products of the Industrial Revolution...
Last month Publisher Macaulay, not satisfied with the title Babe Gordon, offered $100 for the best suggestion, to be used on possible later editions, as probable title of a play version. Titles already dis carded: Pleasure Woman, Hell's Belle...