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"King’s administration, however, had not shown any sign of bending much in the CPR’s direction. Indeed, his government implemented Borden’s railway legislation, passing the Canadian National Railways Act of 1919, and appointed an outstanding executive, Sir Henry Thornton, to the helm of the CNR in 1922. Thornton was a U.S.-born railway executive and engineer by background who had moved up the corporate hierarchy of the Pennsylvania Railroad before taking a general manager’s position with the Great Eastern Railway in England, at the time the world’s largest commuter system. After the outbreak of war, Thornton’s technical knowledge was drawn upon in the British war effort as he was cast into the role of inspector-general for the British Expeditionary Forces and made “responsible for operation of the whole intricate system upon which the existence of the British line depended.” Embracing advanced views on unions and labour relations, Thornton was respected by Great Eastern Railway employees and was a personal friend of J.H. Thomas, a major figure within Britain’s national railway union. It was Thomas who mentioned the CNR position to Thornton – a position that had opened up following the resignation of D.B. Hanna, who resigned in protest over “political interference” in CNR affairs exercised by the recently elected Liberal administration of Mackenzie King. Knighted for his war services, the affable

Thornton had gained a reputation as a railway “superman,” though his position with the Great Eastern had been extinguished after the government passed legislation to reorganize the British railway system. Thornton was quick to charm the Canadian public as well as CNR employees. Thornton “has quite won the hearts of all who have met him,” exclaimed Flavelle. More troubling to Flavelle and moderate progressives such as Dafoe, however, were Mackenzie King’s blatant political appointments to the CNR board. This was a departure from Borden’s ideal of nonpartisan, businesslike operation. Nonetheless, with Thornton at the helm, the CNR had behind it a power of incalculable importance: popular opinion.

Beatty was quick to see public relations as the most significant challenge facing the CPR. In 1923, encouraged by Beatty’s recent public pronouncements, Lord Atholstan commenced his “Whisper of Death” campaign in the Montreal Star, which forecast an oncoming deluge resulting from a mounting national debt, made intolerable by costs associated with the CNR. Beatty considered Thornton nothing more than a “showman,” and sought to meet his challenge and correct “political misrepresentation” about the railways through an institutional advertising campaign. (Thornton, for his part, considered Beatty “a lawyer [and] not a railway man.” ) Indicative of this public relations drive, Dafoe reported in the summer of 1925 that “unfair competition invariably comes up” in discussions with high CPR officials; “[t]hey hope for the Shaughnessy plan or a merger.” In April, Clifford Sifton reported: “I do not think the Canadian Pacific has ever been as active in propaganda as it is now. Their intrigues and efforts to influence official opinion are in evidence everywhere.” Sifton asked Dafoe to have the Winnipeg Free Press “declare war on the scheme and fight it out.”

This drive had its effect in Ottawa, where a Senate committee was established to investigate the railway question in 1925. At the committee’s closed-door hearings, Beatty and Sir Herbert Holt presented cases for railway amalgamation so similar that a summary of the proceedings described their presentations as one position. The Senate proved particularly responsive to CPR influence, and the committee’s report presented an opinion generally in line with Beatty’s case, which Beatty himself would reference in arguing for railway unification in the future. Beatty and Holt, as we have seen, met with King the same summer to discuss railway policy, and Beatty continued to press King to leave the door open for railway unification later in the year. But the political bagmen who inhabited the Senate found it easier to embrace railway consolidation than the MPs who counted on popular support in their constituencies. This was somewhat stifling to the aspirations of Beatty and his moneyed allies. With neither major political party embracing his position on the railway question, Beatty remained “neutral” in the 1926 federal election, preferring to support favoured individuals in both major parties. While Beatty finessed his way around Ottawa, much of the railway battle was being waged in direct business competition, made more lucrative by the boom at the end of the 1920s as the two companies engaged in competition through line extensions, hotel construction, expansion of shipping fleets, and improvements in commuter services. While Beatty advocated consolidation of the two competing systems under private ownership, economic expansion during the 1920s made competition a viable option. Indeed, Beatty reported that $353,346,450 in dividend payments were distributed to common and preferred shareholders during the period from 1918 to 1930, representing 85 per cent of the company’s total earnings “after deducting fixed charges and pension fund appropriations.”

Thornton, meanwhile, modernized the CNR and emerged as a national icon of sorts, emblematic of the possibilities of public enterprise and cooperation between the state, capital, and labour, culminating in Thornton’s address at the American Federation of Labor’s international convention in 1929 in Toronto, where Thornton proclaimed the beginning of “a new labor era.” The “very particular conjunctures of context, character, and circumstance” that underpinned Thornton’s rise, as Allen Seager has observed, disintegrated with the arrival of the Great Depression. Thornton would be one of its first and most public victims, a public sacrifice encouraged by Beatty as he moved even deeper into political activism.

The Duff Commission and “the Tragedy of Henry Thornton” Meighen, Roger Graham has written, “was not spared the intrigues of the Montreal tycoons” as talk that R.B. Bennett would be his successor emerged in early 1926; Bennett was “known to hold more ‘businesslike’ opinions about railway matters” than Meighen, whom Bennett once famously described as “the gramophone of Mackenzie and Mann.” Bennett’s election as leader of the Conservative Party in 1927 was an encouraging sign and a small victory for Beatty and St James Street. They respected the independently wealthy Bennett, believing him to be above petty politics; they shared his deep sense of loyalty to the British Empire; and they felt assured about his protectionist tariff policies. “St. James Street favours Bennett because of his protectionist policies,” wrote Prime Minister King pessimistically before the 1930 election. King also learned that “Beatty was favourable to Bennett’s views.” The list of Montreal donors to Bennett’s campaign, observed historian Larry Glassford, “read like a Who’s Who of the Montreal financial and industrial establishment.”

Formerly the chief western solicitor of the CPR and a major shareholder in the Royal Bank, Bennett’s immersion in business and his history with the CPR certainly helped to make him a more reliable candidate for wealthy Montreal residents – but on the campaign trail such connections were a potential liability. With his proclamation “Amalgamation never, competition ever” in a campaign speech, Bennett sounded publicly his independence from Beatty in an attempt to assure western voters that he would not cede a railway monopoly to the CPR. Popular appeal again seemed to trump Beatty’s long-term goals. The seeds of future conflict between Bennett and Beatty were planted even before the electoral triumph of the Bennett Conservatives in 1930. Canada had more railway mileage per capita than any other nation by the 1930s. The financial strain of maintaining two competing national lines had seemingly resolved itself during the boom years of the late 1920s, only to reemerge as a sudden crisis once the economic slump set in. The financial position of the CPR worsened: in the first half of 1931, the CPR reduced dividend payments and soon after suspended payments altogether. Worse still was the position of the CNR, which was already weighed down by an unwieldy capital structure that included old debts accumulated by Mackenzie and Mann and the Grand Trunk. Company earnings fell by $46,249,000, and Thornton attempted cost-cutting measures without implementing wholesale layoffs. Philosophically opposed to public enterprise, Bennett viewed Thornton as a creature of the King government; and he supported a campaign that conflated Thornton’s lavish private lifestyle with his management of the CNR. While in London, England, in October 1930, Prime Minister Bennett wrote his minister of railways and canals, R.J. Manion, about the shopping activities of Thornton’s wife:

President’s wife here purchasing furniture. President cabled her improvements would cost eighteen thousand dollars and she must spend less for furniture. She says building requires improvements. Whatever action you take entirely satisfactory. I was only desirous [to] communicate casual information.

The CNR directors had approved funds for Lady Thornton to furnish their Pine Avenue home “in a manner appropriate for the residence of a president.” But, having received this “casual information” from Bennett, Manion reneged on the agreement. Thereupon Sir Henry perceived that “a concerted plot to ruin his personal reputation” was in the works. He pressed Manion in December to honour the agreement that $20,000 in CNR funds be made available for renovations to his house, explaining that he was “very hard up, stock losses, etc.” Manion did not bend and described his reply to Bennett:

I told him that if the case came up in the House I wanted to be able to say that we had nothing to do with the matter – that the whole arrangement had been made under the previous administration.

Thornton would serve as a sacrificial lamb for the supposed improprieties of the King administration. The following year the Railway Committee of the House of Commons provided new opportunities to undermine Thornton’s public reputation and associate him with the supposedly spendthrift ways of the Liberals. Manion, R.B. Hanson of New Brunswick, and Dr Peter McGibbon, MP for Muskoka-Ontario, were among the most active Conservative members to tar Thornton in the House, citing imprudent company expenditures on hotels, suggesting (falsely) exorbitant company salaries, and drawing attention to Thornton’s salary and personal expense account. Though Beatty admitted the unfairness of some of the attacks levelled against Thornton, he also recognized new political opportunities on the horizon.

Upon Beatty’s suggestion, a beleaguered Thornton called for the formation of a royal commission to study the railway question. And though Beatty and Holt complained about delays in getting the commission established, the Duff Commission was finally formed in November. Before the commencement of the commission’s hearings, Beatty was “very hopeful that something constructive” could be achieved and lauded its personnel as “really outstanding.” Chaired by Supreme Court Judge Lyman Duff, the commission included six other prominent figures with weighty business – and some academic – credentials: Joseph Flavelle; Beaudry Leman of Montreal, general manager of the Banque Canadienne Nationale and president of the Canadian Bankers’ Association; U.S. railway executive Leonor Fresnel Loree, president of the Delaware and Hudson Railway Company; Lord Ashfield, head of London’s underground system, the Metropolitan Railways; Walter Charles Murray, president of the University of Saskatchewan; and the Shediac, New Brunswick, physician John Clarence Webster, a respected Conservative, museum patron, and personal friend of Howard P. Robinson.

From his office in Winnipeg, Dafoe reflected upon the significance of the commission’s establishment. “Perhaps I am getting too suspicious in my old age,” he wrote Free Press correspondent John A. Stevenson

but I have a most decided ‘hunch’ that this Commission was appointed to do a particular chore, and that with perhaps two exceptions its members know what the chore is to be. I think the linked money powers in Canada and the United States, with all their subordinate and associate interests, have decided that the time is opportune to oblige Canada to remove her desire to own and operate her own railways.

Dafoe believed that – as part of this plot to gut the CNR – the same tactic deployed in England to dislodge the Labour government might be deployed in Canada: “National Government.”

Had Dafoe become “too suspicious” in old age? Not entirely. The ever-domineering Bennett had taken a personal interest in the formation of the commission and appeared to be in closer contact with St James Street than the responsible minister, Manion. Winnipeg Free Press correspondent Grant Dexter reported on 15 November that Manion was in “complete ignorance” about the commission’s personnel, but two weeks earlier a private memorandum written by Floyd Chalmers of the Financial Post revealed that Sir Herbert Holt was up to date on recent developments in the selection of commission personnel. “I want to take back anything about believing that amalgamation is off,” wrote Dexter.

Meanwhile, Thornton’s experience at the hands of the Conservatives had led him to an about-face: in a meeting with Dafoe at Winnipeg’s Fort Garry Hotel on 12 October, Thornton lamented that he had lost faith in the ideal of public enterprise – the CNR, in the interest of its own survival, would have to come under the control of some form of unified management along with the CPR. He told Dafoe that he and Beatty had been working on such a plan together, a fact later confirmed by Lady Thornton. After Thornton’s death, his biographer, D’Arcy Marsh, would write (in 1934) that Thornton had been made “constitutionally incapable” of opposing Beatty, and Dexter believed that Thornton had sold out to Beatty to save his job. Dafoe, Marsh, and Dexter were overly cynical in assessing Thornton’s actions. And though Dafoe’s suspicions had some basis, he greatly exaggerated the level of coordination between Bennett and Beatty.

The proceedings of the Duff Commission commenced on 4 December 1931 with the commissioners interviewing Sir Henry Thornton in a session closed to the public – as was the testimony of all senior railway and government officials. Thornton proposed the establishment of a ten-person “superboard,” consisting of the presidents of each railway company, two Liberal, two Conservative, and two Progressive representatives, a representative of labour, and a representative of the minister of railways and canals. Though Dafoe and others, not privy to his testimony at the time, might have considered it something of a sellout, such judgments are overly harsh. Thornton believed the board, which would oversee both railways and enforce cooperation, would be able to conciliate various interest groups, and his plan thus attempted to establish a mechanism whereby a form of democratic control over the management of the country’s railways would obtain.

It was Thornton’s embrace of the principle of democratic control that set him apart from Beatty – and here Thornton was steadfast. The very goal of exercising democratic control over Canada’s railway systems was thought dubious by commission members, however. Commissioner Loree asked CNR vice-president S.J. Hungerford whether “it be a fair statement to make that a democratic form of government is no competent agency to carry on the railroad business?” To Hungerford’s assertion that “[w]e are seeking to do it,” Loree replied: “But are they doing it? The records do not show they are, because they are going behind every year.”

With the questioning at times threatening to transgress the line of gentlemanly decorum, Thornton stressed that management of the CNR was a matter of public policy and thus did not necessarily need to justify itself on the basis of profits and losses. In response to a statement by Joseph Flavelle that such an enterprise should not be maintained, Thornton asserted that it was “a matter for the Canadian people to decide.” Beatty appeared before the commission the next day and presented a case that was ideologically much easier for the commissioners to appreciate.

If, on one hand, the privately owned system finds it is unable to maintain its credit in an unequal struggle with the long purse of the state,” Beatty said before the commission, “a grave injustice will be done to the shareholders of a corporation which has fulfilled its fifty-year old contract with the nation, and which has made its full contribution to the upbuilding [ sic ] of the Dominion. Such a consummation would cause most serious injury to the reputation of this young country as a field for private capital.

The cases of Beatty and Thornton differed at a fundamental level, centring not only on the appropriate role of the state in the nation’s economic life but on the appropriate role of public opinion in shaping economic policy. Beatty opposed government intervention, except in a helping role to private capital – steamship subsidies and protective tariffs, for example (which the CPR benefited from). He was also generally dismissive of popular opinion. Thornton, he believed, had succeeded by “showmanship” and “mob appeals.” The deluded public, in Beatty’s estimation, deserved only a very limited role in deciding public policy, and, as we shall see, he turned to “educational” work to address this issue. Thornton, by contrast, accepted some degree of “political” interference in economic affairs as inevitable under any democratic government. “After all in any form of popular government it must be accepted as axiomatic that the business of government is politics and,” Thornton stated before the commission on 4 January 1932, “irrespective of whether one likes it or not, politics is something with which a government must reckon in all its activities.” Though commission members disliked the idea of public influence over railway management, a view that would be plainly expressed in their report, they were at least equally concerned with the prospect of leaving the nation’s railways in the hands of a private monopoly. Beatty proposed a “unification” plan of the two systems under CPR management that would maintain separate ownership: CPR personnel would act as trustees of the government’s property. Commissioners Flavelle and Loree expressed concern over the de facto monopoly that Beatty’s plan would create. (Beatty privately dismissed Flavelle’s business philosophy, which stressed the role of competition, as “the Flavelle school of ruthless business brutality.” ) Commissioner Webster was somewhat less worried about monopoly.

“The fear of monopoly did not terrify me, as it so strongly impressed Sir Joseph,” he wrote to Meighen in November 1932, “nor did I shrink from submitting the responsibility of conducting so great an undertaking to a single management.” Beatty did not try to hide the monopoly implications of his plan but rather defended the principle of monopoly itself, arguing that “some of the most efficient, most widely administered and most publicspirited public corporations on this continent are monopolies.” “They are in the main,” he continued, “successful, efficient and progressive, and they are administered by men of high character and great ability.” For Beatty, who believed business enterprise to be a form of public service, the most important factor was the quality of business leadership. Since management would be composed of “business statesmen of the highest type,” he did not believe the “question of autocracy” could arise.

Beatty appeared before the commission again on 19 February and presented a memorandum outlining the benefits of unification, in which he reiterated the need to impose businesslike management over the country’s railways. Asked by commissioner Loree whether a board of directors consisting of CPR and government representatives might successfully manage a unified system, Beatty foresaw two problems. First, the government would be exercising too much active influence in railway matters; second, government involvement would render “doubtful the type [of individuals] that would be selected for appointment to the Board.” Such an arrangement could only be successful if independence from the government were established; Beatty suggested an independent tribunal might select government representatives from “the Canadian Bankers Association, the Canadian Chamber of Commerce and a Judge of the Supreme Court” and be “certain to get the type of men whose ability would justify the selection.”

Beatty’s formulations were latently elitist and antidemocratic: “quality” leadership was presumed to reside in the upper echelons of the business community, and management of the railway system could not be entrusted to any other segment of the population – indeed, it was necessary to insulate such leadership from the pressures of popular opinion. According to Beatty’s beliefs, efficient railway policy required that it not be formulated outside the meritocratic order that decided success or failure in private enterprise; “political” interference was unacceptable. Beatty was not unique in this mindset; the commission’s report echoed similar sentiments.

The commission’s proceedings prefaced Thornton’s final fall from grace in public life. Thornton had been divorced and quickly remarried (to a much younger woman) several years earlier, and he was known to enjoy nightlife. These were not important problems while the CNR was operating at a profit, but once that changed, Thornton’s personal life was conflated with his management style to devastating effect. He managed the railway the way he lived, his detractors claimed. Called once again before the House of Commons to testify, the gentlemanly decorum of the commission hearings evaporated, Thornton was subjected to a verbal assault by R.B. Hanson. Thornton’s public tarring eroded his political support in the House of Commons. Teetotaller, opposition leader, and political acrobat Mackenzie King acquiesced to this portrayal of Thornton, writing in his diary: “The truth is Thornton has not measured up of late, has drunk too much – far too self-indulgent.” Thornton would later write to King that he had departed from Ottawa under the auspices of a “reign of terror,” “always ‘shadowed’ by a detective.” “The Canadian Pacific Ry. has … exercised a sinister influence in Canadian politics – It has never hesitated at bribing + corruption in all its forms and it represents the worst type of predatory capitalism,” Thornton wrote to King the following day. “It has ruined men.” Undoubtedly, Thornton counted himself among the “ruined men”: “I feel fairly certain I might have remained where I was had I cared to go along with Beatty.”

- Don Nerbas, Dominion of Capital: The Politics of Big Business and the Crisis of the Canadian Bourgeoisie, 1914-1947. University of Toronto Press, 2013. p. 125-133.

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FIEND WITHOUT A FACE (1958) – Episode 166 – Decades Of Horror: The Classic Era

“I’m a doctor, colonel, not a detective! There’s nothing like this in the books!” No, this isn’t Star Trek’s Bones talking, but it is from a 50s sci-fi/horror classic. Join this episode’s Grue-Crew – Chad Hunt, Daphne Monary-Ernsdorff, Doc Rotten, and Jeff Mohr along with guest host Dave Dreher – as they try to keep their brains from being sucked out by the Fiend Without A Face (1958).

Decades of Horror: The Classic Era Episode 166 – Fiend Without A Face (1958)

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A scientist’s thoughts materialize as an army of invisible brain-shaped monsters – complete with spinal cord tails – terrorize an American military base.

Director: Arthur Crabtree

Writers: Herbert J. Leder (screenplay); Amelia Reynolds Long (original story: “The Thought Monster;” Weird Tales, March 1930)

Executive Producers: Richard Gordon, Charles F. Vetter

Special Effects by:

Peter Neilson (special effects)

Flo Nordhoff (special effects: Ruppel & Nordhoff) (uncredited)

Karl-Ludwig Ruppel (special effects: Ruppel & Nordhoff) (uncredited)

Selected Cast:

Marshall Thompson as Major Cummings

Terry Kilburn as Capt. Chester (as Terence Kilburn)

Michael Balfour as Serg. Kasper

Gil Winfield as Dr. Warren

Shane Cordell as Nurse

Stanley Maxted as Col. Butler

James Dyrenforth as Mayor

Kim Parker as Barbara Griselle

E. Kerrigan Prescott as Atomic Engineer (as Kerrigan Prescott)

Kynaston Reeves as Prof. Walgate

Peter Madden as Dr. Bradley

Meadows White as Ben Adams (as R. Meadows White)

Lala Lloyd as Amelia Adams

Robert MacKenzie as Const. Gibbons

Launce Maraschal as Melville

The Grue Crew welcome Dave Dreher as guest-host to review the sci-fi/horror 50’s monster flick, Fiend Without a Face (1958). The tagline promises “New Horrors! Mad Science Spawns Evil Fiends!” and the stop-motion animation of the fiends – a brain with antennae and a spine – delivers the goods. The script is based on Amelia Reynolds Long’s 1930s short story, “The Thought Monster,” originally published in Weird Tales magazine. A modern remake has been promised in recent times but remains as invisible as the fiends in the first two-thirds of this British B-movie classic.

At the time of this writing, Fiend Without a Face is available for streaming from the Criterion Channel, AMC+, and PPV on Amazon and AppleTV. It is also available on physical media as a DVD from the Criterion Collection.

Gruesome Magazine’s Decades of Horror: The Classic Era records a new episode every two weeks. Up next in their very flexible schedule, as chosen by Jeff, is The Frozen Dead (1966), written and directed by Herbert J. Leder and starring Dana Andrews and iced Nazis. Yes, it’s back-to-back Leder!

Please let them know how they’re doing! They want to hear from you – the coolest, grooviest fans: leave them a message or leave a comment on the Gruesome Magazine YouTube channel, the site, or email the Decades of Horror: The Classic Era podcast hosts at [email protected]

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Janvier MMXXIII

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2022 Zozo Championship third spherical tee instances easy methods to watch

After per week out west in Sin Metropolis, the PGA Tour’s greatest are in East Asia and it’s time for the weekend. Accordia Golf Narashino Nation Membership in Chiba, Japan, performs host as soon as once more to the 2022 Zozo Championship, the place a restricted discipline of 78 gamers is competing for one of many larger purses on Tour. Rickie Fowler caught hearth on Friday and completed the day tied for the lead at 10 below. His final win on Tour got here on the 2019 WM Phoenix Open at TPC Scottsdale. From tee instances to TV and streaming data, right here’s what it is advisable know for the third spherical of the 2022 Zozo Championship. All instances Japanese. 1st tee Tee time Gamers 7:10 p.m. David Lipsky, C.T. Pan, J.J. Spaun 7:21 p.m. Emiliano Grillo, Mackenzie Hughes, Tom Kim 7:32 p.m. Si Woo Kim, Alex Smalley, Kazuki Higa 7:43 p.m. Lee Hodges, Brandon Wu, Cameron Younger 7:54 p.m. Aaron Rai, Cam Davis, Wyndham Clark 8:05 p.m. Satoshi Kodaira, Beau Hossler, Brendan Steele 8:16 p.m. Adam Lengthy, Taylor Moore, Xander Schauffele 8:27 p.m. Maverick McNealy, Tom Hoge, Cameron Champ 8:38 p.m. Ryo Hisatsune, Patrick Rodgers, Hayden Buckley 8:49 p.m. Joel Dahmen, Viktor Hovland, Luke Record 9:00 p.m. Sam Ryder, Adam Schenk, Collin Morikawa 9:11 p.m. John Huh, Keita Nakajima, Matthew NeSmith 9:22 p.m. Andrew Putnam, Rickie Fowler, Keegan Bradley tenth tee Tee time Gamers 7:10 p.m. Sahith Theegala, Sebastian Munoz, Ok.H. Lee 7:21 p.m. Sungjae Im, Troy Merritt, Yuto Katsuragawa 7:32 p.m. Dylan Frittelli, Scott Stallings, Takumi Kanaya 7:43 p.m. Sepp Straka, Hideki Matsuyama, Tyrrell Hatton 7:54 p.m. Corey Conners, Kurt Kitayama, Martin Laird 8:05 p.m. Mikumu Horikawa, Tommy Fleetwood, Christiaan Bezuidenhout 8:16 p.m. Chad Ramey, Stephan Jaeger, Mark Hubbard 8:27 p.m. Naoyuki Kataoka, Matt Wallace, Adam Svensson 8:38 p.m. Hiroshi Iwata, Danny Lee, Rikuya Hoshino 8:49 p.m. Chez Reavie, Mito Pereira, Tomoharu Otsuki 9:00 p.m. Kevin Streelman, Kaito Onishi, Lucas Herbert 9:11 p.m. Aguri Iwasaki, Russell Knox, Riki Kawamoto 9:22 p.m. Peter Malnati, Shugo Imahira, Davis Riley Learn how to watch You may watch Golf Channel for free on fuboTV. ESPN+ is the unique residence for PGA Tour Dwell streaming. All instances Japanese. Friday, Oct. 14 TV Golf Channel: 10:30 p.m.-2:30 a.m. STREAM Peacock: 10:30 p.m.-2:30 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 15 TV Golf Channel: 11 p.m.-3 a.m. STREAM Peacock: 11 p.m.-3 a.m. We advocate fascinating sports activities viewing and streaming alternatives. Should you signal as much as a service by clicking one of many hyperlinks, we might earn a referral price. Photographs: 2022 Zozo Championship at Accordia Golf Narashino Nation Membership View 29 pictures Originally published at Sacramento News Journal

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The Greatest Golf Courses around the World

The Greatest Golf Courses around the World Golf enthusiasts in the United States should schedule at least one tee time at the nation’s finest courses, which include Pine Valley Golf Club in Clementon, New Jersey; Augusta National in Georgia; and the course at Cypress Point Club in Virginia Beach. Dedicated golfers should also consider booking a flight to some of the most celebrated golf venues around the world. Royal County Down Golf Course in Newcastle, County Down, Northern Island, is considered one of the finest golf courses in the world. In fact, the course jumped from No. 4 to No. 1 on the Golf Digest list of the World’s 100 Greatest Golf Courses in 2016 and retained that position in 2022. The 7,186-yard, par 71 course was initially designed by Old Tom Morris in 1889, but has undergone a dozen redesigns since then, including a Donald Steel renovation in 1998. Set against the backdrop of Dundrum Bay and the Mountains of Mourne and surrounded by golden dunes of gorse, Royal County Down is regarded as one of the loveliest courses in the world. That said, the course challenges golfers with a slew of blind shots and sturdy bunkers. Developed by Tom Doak and Brian Slawnik in 2015, Tara Iti Golf Course in Mangawhai, New Zealand, is one of the newest courses to make an impact on the global golfing stage. A relatively short course at 6,840 yards, Tara Iti plays more like a links-style course compared to the nation’s traditional coastal courses, the result of Doak and Slawnik’s careful removal of pine trees and reshaping of the underlying soil into hummocks and sand dunes. Analysts have described Tara Iti as New Zealand’s take on Pebble Beach. Scotland is the traditional home of golf and the country hosts several renowned courses, none more celebrated than the Championship course at the Royal Dornoch Golf Club. Old Tom Morris designed “the most natural course in the world,” according to sportswriter Herbert Warren Wind. Over the decades, the course has received updates from the likes of George Duncan, Donald Steel, and Tom Mackenzie. The Championship course is known for its dunes and the North Sea shoreline’s persistent winds. The winds are particularly vexing for golfers familiar with bounce-and-run play, as the famous Dornoch’s greens sit precariously on flat plateaus. Australia is home to several of the world’s most beautiful courses, including the West course at Royal Melbourne Golf Club in Black Rock. Doak updated Alister MacKenzie and Alex Russell’s 1931 creation as recently as 2016. Interestingly, many golfers play the West course as a “composite” course, switching out holes 8, 9, and 13 through 16 with six courses from Royal Melbourne’s East course, which itself ranked No. 19 in the world on Golf Digest’s 2022 list. Finally, Tom Simpson designed the course at Morfontaine Golf Club in France in 1927. Kyle Phillips remodeled the course in 2004, though he retained the timeless quality of Simpson’s initial design. Many have compared the course to the heathland courses of London, but with narrower fairways. Other highly rated international golfing experiences can be found at Cape Kidnappers Golf Course in Hawke’s Bay, New Zealand; Victoria, Australia’s Kingston Heath Golf Course; and Cabot Cliffs in Iverness, Canada. via WordPress https://farooqshahzad.wordpress.com/2022/09/13/the-greatest-golf-courses-around-the-world/

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Top 10 Richest Women in The World 2022

Françoise Bettencourt Meyers, Liliane Bettencourt’s only daughter is leading this list with holding the first place of being the richest women in the world with a net worth of $81.5 Billion (Rupees – 6,14,921. Alice Walton heiress to Walmart’s riches comes in second with a net worth of $64.3 Billion (Rupees – 4,85,146 crores).With a net worth of $54.6 Billion (Rupees – 4,11,740 crores), MacKenzie Scott having a 4% interest in Amazon.

Here is the list of the 10 richest women in the world.

List of Richest Women in The World

1. Françoise Bettencourt Meyers & Family

NET WORTH: $81.5 BILLION

AGE: 67

IDENTIFIED AS: CHAIRWOMAN, L’ORÉAL

CITIZENSHIP: FRANCE

Françoise Bettencourt Meyers is the world’s richest woman and a French billionaire heiress.

Liliane Bettencourt’s only daughter and heir are her.

2. Alice Walton

NET WORTH: $64.3 BILLION

AGE: 71

IDENTIFIED AS: HEIRESS, WALTON FAMILY FORTUNE

CITIZENSHIP: UNITED STATES

Alice Louise Walton is the heiress to Walmart’s riches in the United States.

She had nearly $11 billion in Walmart stock as of September 2016.

3. MacKenzie Scott

NET WORTH: $54.6 BILLION

AGE: 50

IDENTIFIED AS: OWING TO A 4% STAKE IN AMAZON

CITIZENSHIP: UNITED STATES

MacKenzie Scott is an author and philanthropist from the United States.

After her divorce from Amazon founder and former CEO Jeff Bezos, she has a net worth of $54.6 billion as of May 29, 2021, thanks to a 4% interest in Amazon.

She is well-known for her role in the establishment and growth of Amazon, as well as her now-divorced marriage to Jeff Bezos.

4. Julia Koch & Family

NET WORTH: $51.5 BILLION

AGE: 58

IDENTIFIED AS: PRESIDENT OF DAVID H. KOCH FOUNDATION

CITIZENSHIP: UNITED STATES

Julia Margaret Flesher Koch is an American socialite, philanthropist, and one of the richest women in the world.

Her fortune was left to her by her late husband, David Koch, who died in 2019.

Forbes estimates her and her family’s net worth to be $43 billion in January 2020.

5. Miriam Adelson

NET WORTH: $29.1 BILLION

AGE: 75

IDENTIFIED AS: PUBLISHER OF THE NEWSPAPER ISRAEL HAYOM

CITIZENSHIP: SOUTH AFRICA (1971-CURRENT), UNITED STATES (2000-CURRENT), CANADA (1971-CURRENT)

Miriam Adelson is a richest women in the world Israeli-American physician.

She became a donor to conservative political groups in the United States and Israel after her 1991 marriage to American business billionaire Sheldon Adelson.

She is the current publisher of the Israel Hayom newspaper.

6. Jacqueline Mars

NET WORTH: $30.9 BILLION

AGE: 81

IDENTIFIED AS: DAUGHTER OF AUDREY RUTH (MEYER) AND FORREST MARS, SR., AND GRANDDAUGHTER OF FRANK C. MARS, FOUNDERS OF THE AMERICAN CANDY COMPANY MARS, INCORPORATED

CITIZENSHIP: UNITED STATES

Jacqueline Mars is a businesswoman and heiress from the United States.

She is the granddaughter of Frank C. Mars and the daughter of Audrey Ruth (Meyer) and Forrest Mars, Sr., the founders of the American confectionery business Mars, Incorporated.

Jacqueline Mars was rated the 48th richest person in the world by Bloomberg Billionaires Index in April 2021, with a net worth of US$43.4 billion.

7. Yang Huiyan & Family

NET WORTH: $27.9 BILLION

AGE: 39

IDENTIFIED AS: MAJORITY SHAREHOLDER (55%), COUNTRY GARDEN HOLDINGS

CITIZENSHIP: CHINA

Yang Huiyan is a Chinese-born property developer and richest women in the world.

She became a Cypriot citizen in 2018 and is the primary stakeholder of Country Garden Holdings, which her father Yang Guoqiang primarily handed to her in 2007.

She is Asia’s richest women in the world.

Yang Guoqiang, her father, founded the real estate business Country Garden in 1997 and gave her 70 percent of the company’s shares before its IPO in 2007.

8. Susanne Klatten

NET WORTH: $28.7 BILLION

AGE: 57

IDENTIFIED AS: HOLDINGS IN ALTANA AND BMW; RICHEST WOMAN IN GERMANY

CITIZENSHIP: GERMANY

Susanne Hanna Ursula Klatten, the daughter of Herbert and Johanna Quandt, is a German richest women in the world.

According to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, her net worth was projected to be US$25.5 billion in May 2021, making her the richest woman in Germany.

9. Gina Rinehart

NET WORTH: $22.7 BILLION

AGE: 68

IDENTIFIED AS: EXECUTIVE CHAIRMAN OF HANCOCK PROSPECTING

CITIZENSHIP: AUSTRALIA

Georgina Hope is a fictional character. “Gina” Rinehart is a mining tycoon and heiress from Australia richest women in the world.

Rinehart is the Executive Chairman of Hancock Prospecting, which was founded by her father, Lang Hancock, and is a privately held mineral exploration and extraction business.

10. Iris Fontbona & Family

NET WORTH: $20.3 BILLION

AGE: 78

IDENTIFIED AS: MINING MAGNATE, MEDIA PROPRIETOR, PHILANTHROPIST

CITIZENSHIP: CHILE

Iris Balbina Fontbona González is a Chilean mining tycoon, media mogul, and richest women in the world who is the widow of Antofagasta PLC founder Andrónico Luksic Abaroa.

She is Chile’s wealthiest person, Latin America’s fifth wealthiest person, the eighth richest women in the world, and the world’s 91st richest women in the world

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