Word: hae
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Scots, Wha Hae...
...heaven. The Stone of Scone is carted off to America by a Pittsburghian Scot in order that it may be safe from the English. On the occasion of its departure a send-off is given in the pub by a bag-piper which is pleasant if you hae Scotch blood in you. Another tantalizing feature of the play was the Scotch displayed on the shelves of the pub. Plenty of Haig & Haig, Johnny Walker, and Vat 69 was prominently visible...
...this time the fat was in the fire. Communist Willie Gallacher raised the "Scots Wha Hae" cry* of Scottish nationalism. M.P. Neil MacLean blamed "some confounded fool in the Admiralty" for allowing a famous shipyard to remain idle because of a mistaken idea that it had no engine shop...
...Johnston's picture of Scottish industry, foreseeing new threats to Scottish livelihood in the bounding Dominion increase in steel production, in the "staggering" rate of U.S. shipbuilding, made clear that the home rule of Scottish nationalists is not the answer. Those who raise the "Scots Wha Hae" cry, he said, will "have to learn to sing it to the tune of the Atlantic Charter...
Hopkins obediently buckled to the task. The big machine leaders trooped in. were told what they had to do, wryly faced around and trooped out. But now the delegates-Democrats wha hae wi' Wallace bled-were hopping mad. Eleanor Roosevelt, who had flown on to address the Convention, failed to calm them in a speech emphasizing the terrible burden of the Presidency in these times. On the floor Henry Wallace had no more than 50 personal votes. But candidate after candidate withdrew. One of them, tall ioo%er Senator Scott Lucas of Illinois, purged himself...