Word: scotch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME, Feb. 8, 1932 et seq.). Admittedly one of the world's greatest orators, Prime Minister MacDonald was never greater than last week. In his speech, which lasted an hour and 20 minutes, he ran the gamut from threats to wheedling, from sarcasm to good cheer-all with Scotch power and dignity...
...less vehement was Rev. Dr. Clarence Edward Noble Macartney of Pittsburgh, leading Presbyterian conservative. To suggestions (mostly by liberals) that Assembly money could better be spent on good works at home, he replied with fine Scotch logic that the only legal way to omit the Assembly would be to have it meet in full special session, decide that it should not be held. Added he: "What a year for the Assembly! Think of the witness we can make! There is the pagan Laymen's Missionary Report, and our own board's answer to it, with no ringing word...
Last month Author Linklater stood for Parliament as Scottish Nationalist candidate in East Fife, Scotland. His Juan in America, whose rogue's progress in the U. S. contained many an amorous interlude, so offended Scotch Presbyterian morals that Candidate Linklater polled only 1 ,000 of 30,000 votes cast...
...Lang-True Animal Stories. Advertising Junket, this program lately completed a contest in which the maximum number of three-letter words was to be formed from "Junket Works Magic With Milk." Prizes: Scotch terrier or $50, wire-haired terrier or $35, angora kitten or $25, white canary or $10, pair of guppies (fish), 50 white china elephants. An animal roars at the beginning of the program. There is a secret society, with pin, called the H. A. H. (Happy Animal Helpers...
Prestige was the prime requisite for the first President of the B. I. S. and who had more prestige than gruff, Scotch-blooded Gates W. McGarrah, then board chairman of New York's Federal Reserve Bank? On the other hand what U. S. citizen knew the whole European set-up well enough to act as august President McGarrah's adviser? From the first Banker McGarrah took to Lawyer Fraser. He was elected...