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...hours later, leaning on the arm of his naval aide President Roosevelt was out on the White House portico to welcome his guest as he drove up in a limousine. Mrs. Roosevelt was there too and Daughter Anna Roosevelt Dall and Major, the police dog, and Meggie, the Scotch terrier. "I'm awfully glad to see you here," cried the President as he squeezed the Prime Minister's hand. He greeted Miss MacDonald as "Miss Ishbel." All moved inside the White House to have tea after the most friendly and informal meeting between heads of States ever witnessed...
...Coal was in his blood. His people were Staffordshire coal miners for generations and giving him a scientific education was their idea of lifting him above his ancestral trade without removing him from it. Professor Cadman's first connection with oil was while doing research for the Scotch shale industry. The British Colonial office sent him to Rumania and Burma on oil expeditions. The War made him Chairman of the Inter-Allied Petroleum Council and technical adviser in the development of a counter terror to poison gas. The War too gave him his knighthood and his first personal contact...
...such articles as were printed yesterday, to be printed at all," said H. E. Robbins '35, chairman of the Liberal Club which met last night to discuss the Hitler movement in Germany. Robbins announced "I am greatly dismayed at the editorial which appeared in the CRIMSON yesterday concerning the 'Scotch Liberalism...
...Presidential appointment Harry Hines Woodring, onetime Governor of Kansas, became Assistant Secretary of War. President Roosevelt also picked Sumner Wells of Maryland to be an Assistant Secretary of State, Daniel William MacCormack, Scotch-born New York banker, to be Commissioner General of Immigration, Alfred Vernon Dalrymple, California lawyer, to be Director of Prohibition in the Department of Justice and Claude G. Bowers of New York to be Ambassador to Spain. He considered making Ruth Bryan Owen, daughter of William Jennings Bryan, the first woman to represent the U. S. in an important diplomatic office, as Minister to Denmark...
...make the flight, Lord Clydesdale had to get permission from his Scotch constituency. Aged 30, two years ago he won a seat in the Commons. At Oxford (where he did not belong to the Pacifistic Union) few expected Lord Clydesdale to become much of a politico. Everyone, however, knew he could fight. In 1924 he won the Scotch amateur middleweight title. He had gone to Glasgow with his friend, classmate and mentor, Edward Francis ("Eddie") Eagan (Fighting for Fun), to enter the championship bout. The reigning champion, a coal miner, gave His Lordship a terrible drubbing, broke...