Word: malcolm
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...kids, always fighting together against outsiders, always scrapping each other. In after years, the younger brother wrote TIME the first letter which it ever published, saying that he always used to lick his big brother (TIME, Sept. 29, 1924). These fisticuffing lads were the McAdoo brothers: William Gibbs, elder; Malcolm Ross, younger...
...boys grew older. Destiny, famed goddess, began to play her tricks. Little Malcolm became a civil engineer. In 1924 he horrified good Democrats, supported the Presidential campaign of Robert M. LaFollette the Elder. Last week, at the ripe age of 61, he married Miss Mildred M. Traut, daughter of a Portsmouth, Va. lumber merchant, The wedding ceremony was performed by a Manhattan city clerk in the chapel of the Municipal Building...
This explosion was the counterblast to a series of remarks by diplomat Sir Malcolm Delevingne, the British representative. Sir Malcolm, to be sure, had charged -though in the most diplomatic way-that the Chinese government is corrupt, and asserted that the International Anti-Opium Association recently informed him of an instance in which 220 lb. of morphine* was allowed to enter China on permits signed by high Chinese officials...
...turning back to Sir Malcolm Delevingne, "you can reply to me by an appeal to diplomacy or you can reply by an appeal to arms. China will welcome your attack. . . . I hereby publicly assume the responsibility for declaring that China will soon tear up the unequal treaties forced on her. . . . I can officially inform the committee that the time when China will tolerate foreign interference in her internal affairs is nearing...
Significance. Sir Malcolm Delevingne was far from smoothing matters over when he contemptuously refused to take offense, postulating instead an obvious truth: that "the Chinese delegates represent only themselves," because the new "Government of China" (TIME, Dec. 8, 1924, CHINA) exists merely as a puppet show whose wires are pulled by military adventurers. (See CHINA...