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Montagu Norman remained in quiet Quebec, kept himself from being seen or heard. If he was conferring with Wall Street bankers, if he was borrowing more money for Britain, no word of it leaked to the Press. In the midst of the excitement, Secretary Andrew W. Mellon of the U. S. Treasury reappeared on the international scene by disembarking from the Conte Biancamano at New York. A flashlight bulb exploded almost in his face...
Newshawks watched and waited at New York, Washington, Quebec and London to see how Great Britain's great credit crisis would be passed, who was guiding the events, and how. For the moment Britain's destiny had been taken from the hands of her politicians and lay among the dictators of the international world of money...
From real estate, Jeannette Lewis branched out into mining. She bought and still operates coal and other mines in Quebec, Ontario, British Columbia. Last week she was carrying on negotiations to ship 15,000 tons of Jeannette Lewis coal a day out of Vancouver for South America. Indomitable Jeannette Lewis has interests even among the far-off fuzzy-wuzzies of British Somaliland...
From a crinkle in the Laurentian Mountains of eastern Quebec, which Princeton's Henry Van Dyke once described as "Nature with her teeth bare and her lips scarred," 30 naturalists last week returned by steamer to their homes in Canada and the U. S. They had spent a fortnight at a Canadian Biological Conference discussing and attempting to phrase the natural laws which govern the alternating plenitude and scarcity of wild life in Canada...
Papa Auclair, family apothecary to the Frontenacs in France, followed his patron to the New World when Frontenac was made Governor General of New France. In Quebec he lived as far as possible the quiet bourgeois life he had known at home. A philosopher, Papa Auclair believed in good manners, good cooking; well-behaved Cécile adored him, cooked beautifully. She liked Quebec and its people, made friends with many of them: courtly and disgruntled old Frontenac; grim old Bishop Laval; cross-eyed Blinker, ex-torturer from the King's prison at Rouen; Pierre Charron, coureur de bois...