Word: toronto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from another large congregation-Old Stone Church on Public Square in Cleveland. To succeed Dr. Robert Wilson Mark who resigned in 1933, Old Stone's congregation agreed unanimously that Dr. Whyte is the man-one of the ablest of Presbyterian pulpiteers, suave, deep-voiced, grey-haired at 45. Toronto-born and educated, he delivered Canada's message to the first World Brotherhood Conference (32 nations) in London in 1919. Dr. Whyte is an expert on church law. appears as counsel before many a Presbyterian ecclesiastical court. Father of three, he accepted the Cleveland call partly because Old Stone...
Born. To Mrs. Ambrose Harrison of Toronto: a son, her 14th child, her 8th since 1926, when Charles Millar died bequeathing some $500,000 to that Toronto woman who should bear the most children in the ensuing decade. Still in the lead in this babe-stakes are Mrs. Frances Lillian Kenny (eleven), Mrs. Grace Bagnato (nine) (TIME...
...against war were as profuse in Canada as in the U. S. Few weeks ago a seasoned old Quebec M. P. named Henri Bourassa pushed a measure through Commons sustaining the Kellogg Anti-War pact. Leading the anti-war campaign was Canada's largest newspaper, the rich, radical Toronto Star...
...Star's war pictures. A far more gruesome series was published last year. Up-&-coming, the Star had also printed the story of Edith Cavell, executed by the Germans as a British spy, and Dickens' Life of Christ. The latest Star exploit prompted irreverent newshawks in Toronto to revive a verse privately circulated last year to poke fun at the Star's Publisher Joseph Edward Atkinson, his son-in-law and vice president Harry Hindmarsh, his one-armed Editor Vernon Knowles. Composed by two members of Toronto's Writers Club, the verse is called "Ad Astra...
George Weston Ltd. of Toronto is a small, ambitious baking company with half a dozen plants in Canada, Scotland and the U. S. Conservatively capitalized with 182,000 shares of preferred and common stock, it has a sound, steady earnings record. Few years ago when Weston Ltd.'s youthful President Garfield Weston arrived in the U. S. seeking fresh capital, bankers were cold to his argument that Depression is the time to expand. But Ben Smith often invests in companies because he likes their personnel, and he liked Garfield Weston. At some indeterminate date, for an unrevealed price...