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Anyone who doubts this should have a confidential Scotch & soda before the hearth with Baron Lloyd of Dolobran, who was Governor of Bombay (a major Gandhi bailiwick) from 1918 through 1923, and was later famed in Egypt for the iron, ruthless hand with which he ruled that "Independent" kingdom as British High Commissioner (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Pinch of Salt | 3/31/1930 | See Source »

Three times LoBagola returned to his Scotch family. His native village became more and more foreign .to him: finally he left it altogether, came to the U. S. With no sense of the value of money, he wa usually broke, in England was once jaile< for theft. He worked in an automobil factory, in vaudeville, as a bootblack. During the War he served in the British army in Palestine, Egypt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Man Without A Country | 3/24/1930 | See Source »

Those favoring repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment numbered 2113, with 426 in favor of strict enforcement of existing laws. Thirty-five per cent of the thirsty consume Scotch and rye, 24 per cent favor gin, 20 per cent beer, and 12 per cent wines...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YALE STUDENTS VOTE 5 TO 1 FOR REPEAL OF PROHIBITION | 3/18/1930 | See Source »

...tiny Scotch cottage, among very common neighbors, live Mr. and Mrs. James Brown, he a coal miner until his grimy neighbors in their might sent him to Parliament...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Mr. & Mrs. Cinderella | 3/10/1930 | See Source »

...Evil is submerged beneath the floods. Years later the Lord God selects Moses to lead his people out of the land of Pharaoh. Pharaoh's palace is depicted as a glorified Negro lodge room with its various magniticoes attired in such lustrous raiment as Confederate uniforms and Scotch kilts. The walls are hung with crimson banners, like those in Sunday Schools, proclaiming the glory and power of Egypt in the best Negroid rhetoric. After Moses has been called to his heavenly home, the world is again steeped in sin. When the Lord God visits a jazz cellar in Babylon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Mar. 10, 1930 | 3/10/1930 | See Source »

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