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Last week in Ontario's Supreme Court, a canny Scot Justice named Keiller MacKay gave a decision that all members of the clan Mackay could cheer. He had found his legal assignment harder than it looked: nowhere in British or Canadian law had he been able to find any precedent for knocking out the deed's clause. But he had been able to marshal a shattering array of recent world opinion. As evidence of what most of the world thinks about such things, Justice MacKay cited...
That seemed to be precedent enough. The discriminatory clause in the Association's deed, said Justice MacKay, was "offensive to the public policy. It appears to me to be a moral duty to ... repel [such provisions] as fissiparous tendencies which would imperil national unity." His ruling: the discriminatory clause and all others like it (involving millions of dollars' worth of property in Ontario) were henceforth void...
...enemies of democracy. . . . We insist that a church which would link its destiny to that of the state must be kept at arm's length by the state." The statement was made public by Kenneth Leslie, left-wing editor of The Protestant. Among its signers: Dr. John A. Mackay (Presbyterian), of Princeton Theological Seminary; Bishop Francis J. McConnell (Methodist); Dr. Edwin Mc-Neill Poteat (Baptist), of Colgate-Rochester Divinity School...
...daughter of Songwriter Irving Berlin, made her formal debut at the Allied Flag Ball and Debutante Cotillion in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria (with 97 other young socialites whose parents had contributed $1,000,000 worth of bonds), brought back memories of the days when her novelist mother, Ellin Mackay Berlin, was Manhattan's brightest debutante...
...Clarence Mackay would not give his consent to Ellin's marrying Berlin. On New Year's Eve, 1925, Berlin admitted defeat and, after pouring his passion into All Alone, prepared to sail for Europe. Then Ellin agreed to marry him despite her art-collecting, opera-patronizing, horse-racing parent. She ran away with the most popular U.S. songwriter since Stephen Foster. Clarence Mackay disinherited her from the fortune that had once been counted in the tens of millions, did not forgive the Irving Berlins until his own marriage (his second) to Opera Singer Anna Case...