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...From Buckingham Palace, over which the red and yellow royal standard flapped once more, it was announced that for fear of chill Scotch mists* the King-Emperor would not be allowed to go to Balmoral for "the twelfth," the August day that traditionally marks the beginning of the Scotch season, the death of thousands of fast-flying Scotch grouse. King George was promised the summer at Sandringham, his favorite summer home...
...coming back. I've got an ambition. I'm going to play the 'misery' on the Scotch bagpipes. When I can do that...
...York Telegram. With a corps of assistants he was to examine and investigate the publicity releases of should-be advertisers, to weed out the real news from the "hand-outs." After weeding, weekly warnings will be sent to all Association members, to all newspaperdom. Whenever possible, Weeder Ford will scotch unworthy publicity schemes at their sources. First a few "offenders" were singled out to be mentioned, and then the list grew and grew until it seemed to include most of the famed producers of the whole U. S. But no mention was made of two of the oldest, most experienced...
...Cabinet rank. Oldest in the MacDonald Cabinet is Lord Parmoor, 76, Lord President of the Council; youngest, Sir Oswald Ernald Mosley, 32, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster; average age, 56. Of the new Cabinet, many were self-educated, born in poverty. The Prime Minister was born in a Scotch hut. One of his ministers was an engine cleaner and fireman, one worked in a cotton mill at the age of ten, another's father was a lace designer, one is the son of an Irish laborer. However, five have titles, four went to Oxford, two to Cambridge, three...
Henderson, Arthur, grey-mustached, placid Foreign Secretary. "Uncle Arthur" Henderson is one of the oldest Labor M. P.'s in the House; he took his seat in 1903. Self-educated, starting life as a Scotch iron moulder, he succeeds the blundering, monocled Sir Austen Chamberlain as director of Britain's foreign policy...