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...Clay Williams first went up from North Carolina to deal with the New Deal on behalf of the tobacco business. He was a powerfully-formed, slow-spoken man of Scotch-Irish ancestry, born in Iredell County, part of Representative Bob Doughton's Congressional district. As a young lawyer he was picked by the late Richard J. Reynolds and brought up in the tradition of the company that makes Camels: a company in which every director is a salaried officer and gets down to the plant in the morning at the same hour as the men. That tradition does...
While Irish Senators debated whether to put colleens below the age of consent into "distinctive dresses", Scotch solons of Glasgow's Diocesan Council were apprised of "terrible moral conditions in Scotland" by their rapporteur on vital statistics, Major A. R. Haverfield...
...scotch rumors buzzing in the world press last week, this unprecedented announcement was made at Rome's Palazzo Venezia, thick-walled executive sanctum of the Dictator: "Her Excellency Donna Rachele Mussolini, wife of II Capo del Governo, is not with child...
...other issues contain Stevenson's "The Philosophy of Umbrellas," which he used intact in a later book of essays, an editorial on Debating Societies, "An Old Scotch Gardener," and his "Philosophy of Nomenclature...
...Scotch Plains, N. J., John Crempa, Belgian War veteran, began the second major engagement of a one-man war against Public Service Gas & Electric Co. Eight years ago the company had part of his property condemned for a right-of-way for its power lines. He demanded $100,000. Eight hundred dollars were offered. In revenge he short-circuited the lines, costing the company a good part of $100,000. When he was jailed for six months. Public Service men offered to get him paroled if he would promise to let the company's wires alone. He refused...