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...nervous Nellie to be panicked into witless sales is tweedy, fiftyish Scot Gifford, Edinburgh solicitor, chairman of eight British investment trusts, director of 22 British companies. Nor will he be a sucker for casual Wall Street advice. Twenty-five percent of the investment portfolios of many British investment trusts is in U. S. securities, and Scot Gifford has long known his way around the Street as well as around the City...
Born. To Louise Carnegie Miller Thomson, 20, granddaughter and heiress-apparent of the late fabulous Andrew Carnegie; and James Frederick Gordon Thomson, 43, sporty Edinburgh lawyer: their first child, a daughter; on the Carnegie estate, Skibo Castle, Scotland. Once reminisced an old Skibo servant: "I'll not forget the way he [Carnegie] looked up at the castle with that queer smile o' his. 'Steel built yon hame,' the auld mon said, 'but it's love that'll keep it together when I'm called away...
...charge of the department is professor Alan B. Moritz, appointed to the staff in 1937, who has spent the past two years abroad studying the organization and practice of legal medicine in European Countries, and serving in the department of Forensic Medicine, University of Edinburgh...
Last week, not in Bengal but in Edinburgh, Sir John was under fire again. He rose to speak at a city corporation luncheon. As he warned his hearers that the war had really not yet begun, he was handed a telegram: URGENT. WOMEN IN EDINBURGH WANT PEACE. Sir John cleared his throat, went on to say that Germany would be a cruel enemy. Another telegram arrived: URGENT. WOMEN IN EDINBURGH WANT PEACE. Sir John took a sip of water, and said in a firm voice that there must be no letdown in defensive precautions. Then came another telegram, identical. They...
...Princeton Survey) confiscated by quadrupled taxation. Some of Thomson's articles on his program N.Y. Her-Trib Dec. 21 '36, Feb. 20 '30 N.Y. WLD Telg'm July 10 '39 editl pp Amer Federalist Mch 1027--Cleveland Leader called his Nature poems of boyhood "perfect": Glasgow Her and Edinburgh Scotsmen: "best America has ever produced." Re his war poems & fiction he was called "the Kipling of the World war and the China Coast" by Montreal Star May 17 1030 p 27: Nat'l mag. Boston Nov t0 15 Metrop magaz N.Y. A. B. Moore...