For years Publisher James J. Harpell of the Montreal Journal of Commerce has been editorially gunning for Sun Life Assurance Co., largest in the British Empire, of which he is a policy holder. Last week Sun Life gunned him.
As long as Publisher Harpell confined himself to decrying Sun Life's large and often-criticized portfolio of common stocks, the company ignored his attacks. But in October the Journal carried a bitter article about Sun Life's 72-year-old President Thomas Bassett Macaulay, in which President Macaulay was described as an Insull conspirator, likened to the late Ivar Kreuger, called "one of the world's greatest crooks,...
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