Word: toronto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...order should join hands with a view to the preservation of Canada's democratic institutions. I prefer to destroy the arguments of the communists by using better arguments; by showing that the doctrines of communists are false." "I have received," added Mr. Lapointe, "an avalanche of protests from Toronto communists against the expenditure of money to increase the Mounted Police force. They don't want Canada to have a militia force of any kind-but they protest against our efforts to prevent Canadians from enlisting in either of the rival forces now fighting in Spain. They...
Bill Wright stayed in Ontario, living by himself in a barnlike mansion in Barrie, a small town 40 miles north of Toronto. A onetime British butcher, he served in the Boer War, got a veteran's grant in Canada, turned to prospecting when the land proved barren. During the World War he was famed as the only millionaire private in the Canadian Expeditionary Force. So rich he does not know what to do with his money, he nevertheless complains bitterly about two things: 1) having to walk downstairs to answer the telephone at night and 2) having...
...have prospered. Sandy Mclntyre lives on guaranteed grubstake from big Mclntyre-Porcupine, whose claims he originally staked. And Mclntyre-Porcupine is run by Jack P. Bickell, a suave, handsome bachelor who made his fortune in the city side of mining and who sports one of the show places of Toronto, where he entertains everyone from Ontario's rambunctious Premier Mitchell F. ("Mitch") Hepburn to visiting U. S. stockmarketeers like Bernard E. ("Sell 'em Ben") Smith...
...Toronto still talks about the time that Jack Hammell ran a speech in a Toronto newspaper at full advertising rates, surprising the publisher if not himself when readers unanimously acclaimed it as the best feature of the day. Another Toronto millionaire prospector is Tony Oklend, an Austrian emigrant who staked Long Lac in 1926. From his pile he bought a big house in the suburbs, hired a platoon of servants headed by a butler. When the servants arrived he called them together to announce: "I don't care what you do around here but I do the cooking...
...wealth if not in prestige the open-handed Toronto millionaires are a match for Montreal's best. Richest man in Canada is Sir Herbert Samuel Holt, testy, 81-year-old Chairman of the Royal Bank of Canada. An Irishman from Dublin, he got his start in Canadian Pacific Ry., made a fortune in Montreal utilities, another fortune in textiles. Hardboiled, hot tempered, hobbyless, he has been known to pick up an inquisitive newshawk, toss him bodily downstairs...