Word: scot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this Scot MacDonald said in a very long, very cautious speech of optimistic tone. Keynote: "There will be reserved to the Governor General [representing the Crown in the new Indian Federation] only that minimum of special powers which is required to secure in exceptional circumstances the preservation of tranquillity and guarantee the maintenance of rights provided by statute for public services and the minorities...
Conservative Counterblast. The die-hard British Conservatives, led by famed Winston Churchill, privately consider all schemes for granting any kind of dominion status to India treasonable. In the U. S. last week Mr. Churchill's hotheaded, loose-lipped, lecture-touring son publicly called Scot MacDonald "a traitor to his country...
Russia. By "dumping" (or its practical equivalents) Stalin has sown uneasiness among "the enemy." With his ruthless Five-Year Plan he has wiped Unemployment from the map of Russia (as Scot MacDonald could not do in Britain). Finally Stalin, who for years ruled Russia obscurely as a "political boss" (General Secretary of the Russian Communist Party), has just thrown off this mask, assumed public office for the first time during his dictatorship, and proved who is absolute master of some 150,000,000 people by kicking into oblivion their nominal Prime Minister, luckless Comrade Alexey Rykov (TIME, Dec. 29). Germany...
...Mosley. But observers noted that numerous features of the "Mosley program" correspond with Liberal Leader David Lloyd George's ideas of how to deal with Britain's economic crisis. Is Sir Oswald a stalking horse for the Welshman? The Mosleys have been loudly describing as "too old," Scot MacDonald, 64, and Stanley Baldwin, 63; but Sir Oswald, 34, declared last week that Mr. Lloyd George, 67, is "the only Wartime leader who is still a dynamic character...
...operas are. Chicagoans, whether they approve of Mary Garden or not, agree that she is the one who puts life into the company. For 20 years she has done so. She went to Chi cago with her name made. She was one of four daughters born in Aberdeen, Scot land, to a Mr. & Mrs. Robert D. Garden. Mr. Garden, now a dignified old gentleman with a white goatee, migrated to the U. S., went into the bicycle business (later he was an executive of Fierce-Arrow Motor Car Co.). Mrs. Garden followed with the girls, lived in Brooklyn...