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...Scotchmen as represented in the two larger U. S. Presbyterian bodies got after the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America last week. Immediate excitement of attack was the Federal Council's recent report to the 27 Protestant Churches for which it performs social research, that U. S. churchmen advised a tolerant attitude toward Birth Control (TIME, March...
...Theological Schools and the School of Public Health. Ten of the 27 from Hawaii are in the College. Four of the Frenchmen and three of the Englishmen are in the Business School. The number from the British Isles, including Scotland, Ireland, and Wales, numbers 23. All five of the Scotchmen are in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences...
...Dominions asked that the Mother Country accept the last half only of this scheme: the wall around the Empire. Within this high wall the Dominions wish to maintain their own low walls, protecting their "infant" manufacturing industries from the competition of Englishmen, Scotchmen, Welshmen. If Great Britain would be willing to make the Empire wall quite high, the Dominions said in effect, then they would be willing to make their little walls quite low. Point: by this arrangement the Mother Country would buy much more in the way of raw materials from her Dominions than at present (because Argentine...
...northern frontier, last week, two Scotch bankers, J. L. Hutcheson and J. V. Dunsmore of the Imperial Bank of India, motored out with an escort of a native sergeant and two soldiers to see the sunrise from the top of the Khyber Pass. Enraged by the sight of two Scotchmen looking at the Indian sun, the Indian sergeant ran amok, shot and killed both the Scotch bankers, was killed himself by the two Indian privates. Peshawar officials hastened to deny that the frenzied Indian sergeant was connected with the placid St. Gandhi movement...
Once there were two Scotchmen, or rather a Scotchman and a Scotch woman: now there is George C. MacKinnon. George has a nerve of iron when the returns are in gold or silver. He tells, among many stories of adventure for profit. of how he spent a morning in a cage of twenty tigers just to win a small bet. According to him these beasts had a manslaughter record which would send a gang of Chicago handiest to Sing for life. Among other things, having killed many into whose charge they had been put including one very beautiful and famous...