Word: macleods
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...because the addition of elders to an already existing hierarchy is not so shocking to them as the creation of a new hierarchy is to Scots. But privately, Church of England leaders kept their ears trained on Edinburgh. Last week the General Assembly in Edinburgh elected Dr. George F. MacLeod its new moderator despite his known promerger leanings, vigorously shushed a delegate who opposed his election. But whatever sounds of ecumenical accord come this week from the General Assembly, in the background there will be the rumble of dour dissent from clergy and churchgoers. Rumbled the Scottish Daily Express...
Benjamin F. Wright Ph.D. 25, president of Smith College, will deliver the commencement address at the Radcliffe graduation June 12 in Sanders Theatre. Chaplain for the exercises will be the Rev. John C. MacLeod, of the First Presbyterian Church, Newburyport, Mass...
...wage increases, the government-owned national railways bought off the threatening railway workers with a 5% increase, though the cost of living has gone up only 3% since their 7% wage increase last year. A few minutes later came the announcement that able, fast-rising Minister of Labor Iain Macleod, 43, had persuaded the shipyard employers and union leaders to agree to face-to-face negotiation of their differences...
...Donald Macleod entered Mr. Thorneycroft's employ in 1950 with exemplary references. But his secret gnawed at his conscience, and after two years Macleod went to his employer and confessed all. On the night of Nov. 4, 1950, Butler Macleod had left a window open in the Duchess of Sutherland's bedroom. While the duke and duchess dined, served by the impeccable Macleod, two friends of his climbed through the window, rifled milady's jewel boxes...
Thorneycroft advised Macleod to go to the police. On Macleod's evidence, his two accomplices were condemned to prison; he himself was let off for testifying and went back to work for Thorneycroft. "He told me he would look after me if I were truthful," explained Macleod. "He has kept his word." Last week Thorneycroft insisted: "He is an excellent butler. Of course, I didn't know at the time that I was going to be Chancellor of the Exchequer. But that doesn't make any difference." But when Thorneycroft moves to the Chancellor's official...