Word: macleans
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...than risk his case in the uncertain hands of his Solicitor General, Attorney General Cummings put on his cutaway, striped trousers and derby and marched to the bar in person. Flanking him at this Thermopylae were competent but uninspired Stanley Reed, general counsel for RFC, and uninspired Angus D. Maclean, Assistant Solicitor General...
...MACLEAN...
...TIME in its article on L'Affaire d'Espionnage, March 26. repeats another old canard by saying that my father "Theodore Switz [was] a naturalized Russian." Actually my father was born in Madison. Wis. (U. S. A.) in 1857. His parents were Germans, not Russians. . . . THEODORE MACLEAN SWITZ...
...bitter wind shrilled over the precipitous heather-covered mountains of the Isle of Mull last week. A few black, bleary-eyed sheep huddled in the lee of ancient deserted cottages. But from the flagstaff of Duart Castle the Maclean banner whipped boldly, and down in the great hall the pipes were screaming "The Chief's Salute." Hundreds of Macleans from all over the world were there to drink their chieftain's health, to eat his mutton and haggis. The Maclean of Clan Maclean, Sir Fitzroy Donald Maclean of Dowart and Morvaren, was celebrating his 50th year as chieftain...
Jacobites to the end, the Macleans of Duart were dispossessed from the Isle of Mull in 1691. Eighty years ago Sir Fitzroy, then a beardless youngster, sailed out from the mainland on a yachting cruise with his father. They passed Mull. On a headland jutting into the water were a few tumbled walls-all that remained of his ancestors' castle. Later young Fitzroy joined the army, got a commission from the Duke of Wellington, fought the Russians at Sebastopol. He served in Canada for three years, and as a good Maclean he was always careful with his money...