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...last day or two before landing. When he spoke of himself he philosophized like many a retired businessman: "I never took pride in the fact that I made money. It was a pride in accomplishment. . . ." In Exile. Samuel Insull did not come back the same man who sailed from Quebec on the Empress of Britain in June 1932. His wealth lost, deprived of power but not yet humiliated, he first settled down in Paris on an $18,000-per-year pension granted him by his old companies. But humiliation followed. In Chicago a grand jury indicted him for embezzlement. Newshawks...
...rolling baritone of Camillien Houde, talking or singing, is a big thing in Montreal. It made a bombastic, short, 200-lb. French-Canadian a Quebec Province assemblyman at 33, mayor of Montreal at 39. But, like the frog that tried to blow himself up into a bull, Camillien Houde burst himself when he tried to become Premier of the Province three years ago. After foxy old Premier Taschereau had unmercifully beaten him, he could not even get himself re-elected mayor of his own Montreal. He lost his leadership of Quebec's Opposition Party, the Conservatives, and last year...
...chipping last week was cautious. George V conferred on Premier Bennett nothing, bestowed a minor knighthood on Chief Justice Joseph Matthias Tellier of King's Bench, Quebec and made a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St. Michael & St. George out of Chief Justice Lyman Poore Duff of Canada's Supreme Court. To 32 Canadian women he gave the Order of the British Empire for their good and charitable works. Snapped ex-Premier King, now Leader of His Majesty's Loyal Opposition at Ottawa: "An attempt to create in Canada a social order based on titular...
Professor Harold Hibbert of McGill University thought he could play the trick on Nature. An expert in the chemistry of plant substance who knew that bacteria synthesize cellulose from sugars, he called upon his colleague, Professor Ross Frisbie Suit, plant pathologist of Macdonald College, Quebec, for a supply of the bacteria which turns the juices of artichokes into inulin. They placed the organisms in small tubes and sealed the tubes securely to the stems of potato plants. The germs seeped into the potato plant, went to work on the juices and in a few days produced starch-free, inulin-rich...
...rather than synthetic. His forte is to break up nothing into its component parts. The big discovery of his life was, the saleability of trivia, set down in nice short sentences, and embellished by an occasional bright idea. So, from the fact that a French filling-station attendant in Quebec had never heard of Socony gasoline, to the no less interesting fact that sufficient okilchao will produce a walking pass-out sans hangover, he notes down everything which makes an imprint on his consciousness in his little brown note-book, later to be transcribed into essays and transmuted into shekels...