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...tyro at financial surveys is Lord MacMillan. Son of a Presbyterian parson, now 60, bald, gaunt, spectacled, with a mouthful of false teeth, he rose to eminence by Scotch frugality and toil through his profession, the law. Famed for his brilliant, resourceful mind, his shrewd humor, he is today Chairman of the Court of the University of London, a Peer, a member of Britain's Privy Council (Supreme HUGH PATTISOX MACMILLAN He repulsed a monstrous suggestion. Court). Heading commissions has been his forte: the Royal Commission on Lunacy and Mental Disorder in 1924, the Home Office Committee on Street...
...before the U.S. began to consider such proposals. In England Premier Bennett induced the author of "The MacMillan Report" to give up his summer holiday, spend two months examining Canada's banking system. For a second member of his commission Mr. Bennett got another son of a Scottish parson. Sir Charles Addis, former director of the Bank of England, former vice chairman of the Bank for International Settlements, now 71, chairman of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank, proud father of six sons and seven daughters. Fortnight ago the two Commissioners arrived in Ottawa with their ladies, met the three...
...stock of this giant company. He left his entire estate to his wife, Jennie. Since the latter, aged 66, suffered from premature senility, the estate was administered by a committee consisting of their two daughters: Helena (Mrs. Charles McCann), and Jessie (Mrs. James Paul Donahue), and Hubert Parson, president of the company (1919-32). When Jennie Woolworth died in 1924 the estate was divided equally among two daughters, Jessie & Helena, and one granddaughter, Barbara Hutton, whose mother, Edna Woolworth Hutton, had died...
...opera. Each time the Metropolitan mounted the work of a U. S. composer, people complained because its subject was not native. The opera Critic Stokes had in mind would be set in colonial Quincy, Mass. Its characters would be Puritans, Cavaliers, Indians; its themes, bigotry and a parson's conflict with his lustful soul. Critic Stokes asked Rochester's Howard Hanson if he would please write the music, submitted his scheme to the Metropolitan. Manager Giulio Gatti-Casazza, knowing from experience with Composer Deems Taylor that critics are likely to be lenient with the efforts of their fellow...
...clock: P. C. Henshaw defeated D. C. Warren, J. R. Peppenheimer defeated K. A. Andren, H. A. Bates defeated R. P. Bissell, R. A. Knowlton defeated T. H. Scheafe, S. C. Westervelt defeated Alan Arensberg, P. M. Schloss defeated G. V. Goulder, C. H. Brickley defeated G. A. Parson...