Word: scotch
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Federalship, a Canadian rumrunner flying the flag of the Republic of Panama. When the smoke cleared, Captain Stewart S. Stone of the Federalship stood upon her bridge with his hands up, signifying surrender. His ship was towed into San Francisco. On board were 12,500 cases of Scotch whiskey valued at $1,000,000 and 19 young adventurers...
...born of Scotch Presbyterian and farmer stock near Mansfield, Ohio, not far from the birthplace of his dearest enemy, Anti-Saloon League. His parents took him away to Iowa at the age of 3. From behind the plow and with a not unusual schooling, he entered a law office in Cedar Rapids. He ate up the law like so much beefsteak. Iowa, in that era an uplift-crusading Republican community, was no place for this pertinacious Democrat. At 26, he went to Kansas City, Mo. One of his first political jobs was county prosecutor. He secured 285 convictions...
...London fiery Scotch Laborite David Kirkwood rose up in the House of Commons, shouted: "The Yorks are on a joyride that costs the Exchequer probably a thousand pounds an hour ($4,860). . . . Why aren't they going to Australia on an ordinary steamer? . . . They are good riddance at the uttermost ends of the earth, and it wouldn't matter an iota if they never returned...
Perhaps Cathleen, Marchioness of Queensberry, had not heard the warning of Emile Fuchs (see above) that she ought to have at least a baronet* in her family tree to succeed as an artist in the U. S. She is only the daughter of a Scotch commoner, famed Anglo-U. S. Portraitist Harrington Mann...
...radio fans, I must congratulate you on the program I heard Thursday night from TIME s entertainers Jan. 27, 1927. Your station is very clear here in Truro, N. S., Canada. I would like to suggest to you from Truro, that I would like to hear a program of Scotch music and songs some night. You have got some very good Scotch talent around your station. I would like very much to receive a copy of TIME, or any of the souvenirs you are sending out from your station. I am listening in every night from Monday until Thursday. Would...