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There a member of Lord Irwin's sinewy entourage told with a grin how the Viceroy had passed en route through the territory of the insignificant and torpid Rajah of Jubbal. Polite surprise that the Englishmen had ventured so far afield to hunt was the Potentate's first reaction. But when informed that they had left their sporting guns behind and were merely out for exercise, the Rajah of Jubbal became morose, evinced incredulity, and was clearly worried as to possible designs upon his little raj by a snooping Big White Viceroy...
Granite forms the unyielding substratum of Aberdeen, famed as the most characteristically Scotch of Scottish cities. The public buildings are all of hard, white granite. And by popular supposition granite has entered into the dour, shrewd, stingy souls of Aberdonians. Therefore Englishmen were hilarious and incredulous, last week, when the super-Scotch stockholders of The Aberdeen Journal voted 2 to i to sell their newsorgan to the lower of two potent bidders. Cried a dissenting and disgruntled stockholder, ''For once Aberdonians have been done...
...Englishmen the whole affair appealed chiefly as an excruciating, inverted Scotch joke; but a larger significance loomed in the fact that the two groups which bid for The Aberdeen Journal are the gigantic, rival newspaper trusts headed respectively by Viscount Rothermere and by the Berry Brothers, Sir William & Corner...
Stewards of the Aquitania were especially attentive to the comforts of President George M. Gales of Louis K. Liggett Co. (chain drug stores) when he sailed from Manhattan last week. He looked important; he was; his company owns the chain of 800 respectable Boots Cash Chemists Shops in England. Englishmen like him because he has not attempted to Americanize the chain...
...dogmatic solution of the problem is far from the author's intent. "Oliver Cromwell," he says in closing, "had set out with the high profession that he would save the parliamentary liberties of Englishmen. That was his theory. In practice he never once allowed England to elect a free Parliament, and his only permanent legacy to the nation was a standing army. A fact like that cannot be fitly explained by the mere historian. It is a subject for a writer of great tragedy--or farcical comedy...