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Vincent Massey. Born 39 years ago, young Vincent Massey was graduated from the University of Toronto in 1910, and later journeyed to reside at Balliol College, Oxford, until he won an M. A. Well-to-do, he accepted a post on the faculty of the University of Toronto and led for a time a graceful existence. As administrator of the Massey Educational Fund left by his grandfather he enjoys the distinction of being culturally a power. Upon quitting the University some years ago he became President of the Massey-Harris Company, from which he resigned to become Minister without Portfolio...
...Collins of Manhattan, after the experience of a general practice, turned neurologist. He has been asked to unravel the nervous, sexual and emotional snarls of thousands of well-to-do women and some men. Of all U. S. parishes, his is perhaps the most conducive not only to hysteria and hypochondria, especially among its most numerous non-native members, but also to genuine disorders of body, mind and soul. Doctors in less complex communities may well envy the scope for observation that has been his. the diversity and clearcutness of his cases. Proportionately, he has a more rigid test...
...Cabinet then left its council room. The door was locked. When members of the Trade Union Council subsequently sought admission, "the lights were out and no one was within," according to the statement of J. H. Thomas, conservative and well-to-do Labor leader. Rebuffed, the Trade Union Council proceeded with the "general strike," denied that it had ordered the Daily Mail strike...
...some time there has been jesting in the press galleries at the Capitol about a "certain southern Senator," formerly a fierce denouncer of Wall Street and the interests and until recently only moderately well-to-do, who during last summer made some $200,000 in real estate and whose philippics have now grown milder because he no longer regards all wealth as an evil demon...
...Mesmin's followers, "chiefly of the well-to-do middle class, men and women from 17 to 70," declared on the other hand, that the Abbé had not only joined the cult and participated in its rites of flagellation, but had aspired to supersede Mme. Mesmin, and had accordingly instigated a young girl to murder her on Christmas night. The girl failed in this alleged attempt, but early in the week Mme. Mesmin's loyal adherents set out for Bombon, "to discipline the Abbé des Noyers...