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Well to the left of both are the three Independent Labor Party members, most notable of whom is broguish John ("Jock") McGovern, 54, a bull-tempered Scottish Socialist who believes that Dictator Stalin has long since sold Karl Marx and the Workers of the World down the river; who once, when Stalin arrested some Indian Communists as Trotskyists, lambasted Communist Gallacher as "a creature so completely under the thumb of Moscow that he does not dare to stand up and defend British subjects...
...Jock McGovern, a former plumber who represents Clydeside ship workers of Glasgow, is as unreconstructed a Socialist as ever caused conservatives to wince at his bad manners. He is no scholar-&-gentleman leftist like Economist Harold Laski, who recently, and politely, observed: ". . . we must begin a revolution by consent now or we shall get a revolution by violence after the war." But Jock McGovern would endorse this statement with the addition of a little invective...
...when Jock McGovern refused to sit down at the Speaker's request, he was ejected from the House of Commons in a shirt-tearing, low-comedy uproar involving himself & friends v. the Sergeant-at-Arms and elderly assistants in ritual tail coats...
...just after the late George V had addressed Parliament, Jock McGovern addressed George and his Queen as follows: "You are a gang of lazy, idle parasites living on the wealth other people create...
...year-old chancellor. When Educator Bowman became head of the university in 1921, he discovered that alumni seemed more interested in a better football team than better teachers. Alumni insisted on building a bowl seating 70,000, getting one of the best football coaches money could buy (Jock Sutherland), and getting players much the same way. In the early '30s, Pitt football teams became fabulously powerful. Rival coaches whispered that Pitt players, besides getting free tuition and books, received a salary of $65 a month. In 1937, when Pitt was invited to the Rose Bowl for the second year...