Word: scot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Scot Henderson, courting European favor, made a long speech contradicting President Hoover's intimation to the International Chamber of Commerce that armament costs rather than high tariffs are the particular cause of Depression about which something should be done at once (TIME, May 18). "Among causes contributing to World Depression." cried Free-Trader Henderson, "the magnitude and high level of protective tariffs rank first and foremost...
...Aberdeen, Scotland, Scot Robert Bruce saw his barn on fire, rushed in to save his cows. As he went in for the last one, he was overcome by smoke, but saw the animal he was after dash by him in a panic. Hazily Robert Bruce reached up, grasped the animal's tail, was dragged in a hurry into the open...
...entire day's session had been set aside for Conservative attacks on the Chancellor's motion. Unexpectedly it passed unopposed. Conservatives, in a panic, had suddenly realized that if the House of Lords were permitted to veto the levy, Scot MacDonald could dissolve Parliament and campaign with an ideal Laborite platform: "Abolish the Lords! Levy on the landlords...
...deal wi' me as severely as ye like," retorted the Scot, "put that in yer pipe and smoke...
...fearing Church of Englander, Sir Esmond reported to Scot MacDonald (TIME, May 5, 1930), "there is no religious persecution in Russia . . . but . . . priests are . . . deprived of all civil rights. . . . Christianity has already disappeared among the youth of Russia and is being supplanted by Communism...