Word: scot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...warm up last week. When it does, Lord Kylsant will be defended by Britain's No. 2 Liberal (Lloyd George is No. 1), famed Sir John Simon. The Crown's major champion will be a former Liberal who suddenly switched into the Labor Party when Scot MacDonald offered him the post of Attorney General of Great Britain in the second Labor Government. Switcher Sir William Jowitt was elected a Liberal M. P. at the last general election (1929), but later in a by-election was returned as Labor M. P. by his old constituents...
Only British M. P. to be knighted was sturdy Ben Turner, staunch Labor henchman of the Prime Minister, onetime weaver, now textile union head. In general the Honors List reflected Scot MacDonald's disapproval of the peerage-no new peer was created...
Seven columns wide the mammoth headline WILL GERMANY GO BANKRUPT stared London in the face one day last week. It spread across the entire front page of the MacDonald Government's party organ the Daily Herald. Paradoxically this super-scarehead was a friendly gesture. Silver-haired, silver-tongued Scot MacDonald was welcoming that day the first German Chancellor to set foot in England since the War: Dr. Heinrich Brüning, a young clean shaven statesman of but 46, a Catholic of stern fiber who won the Iron Cross fighting für Kaiser und für Vaterland...
...waiting," said Scot MacDonald crisply, "to hear some authoritative pronouncement by British Catholics as to what the encyclical means...
Trick on Austria, As expected, the League Council shifted to the World Court last week the job of passing on the legality of the Austro-German attempt to form a "customs union" or Zollverein (TIME, March 30, et seq.). Scot Henderson at this point nearly took Austrian Dr. Johann Schober into camp...