Word: scotlande
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dispute arose over a proposed reduction in the estimates for child welfare in Scotland. Maxton and Wheatley rose and accused the seconders of the motion of being murderers. They were asked to withdraw their remarks, but refused, despite the advice of J. Ramsey McDonald, Parliamentary Labor leader. They were then suspended by a vote of 258 to 70. The Rev. Campbell then took up the cry of " murderers." He was suspended by a vote of 276 to 60. Buchanan soon after heard Sir George Hamilton refer to Emanuel Shinwell as a " Jew." Shinwell said he was proud of the fact...
Sunset at Troon, Scotland, on June 15 found A. G. Havers the winner by one stroke of the British open golf championship. That stroke separated him from Walter Hagen, titleholder. Third place went to MacDonald Smith of California; fourth, to Joe Kirkwood, Australian-born American...
...transplanted organs have actually united with the native nerves, and a violent discussion has been aroused among medical men. A number of European savants are convinced of the achievement, including Prof. Gustav Kolmar, Vienna physiologist, and Dr. D. D. R. Burt, of St. Andrew's University, Scotland, who has himself transplanted eyes in toads. But the majority of eye specialists and many physiologists and biologists, are dubious. A Russian doctor, Katz, recently announced the restoration of sight in blind humans by an artificial device, but not by transplantation of a living eye (TIME, April 14). And right here...
...advocate of the two dollar shirt from Scotland Neck, N. C.? that was Claude Kitchin. But he was more as well. In 1901 he came to Congress, where his father had been before him, where one of his brothers (who later became Governor of North Carolina) then was. In 15 years, by his mastery of diatribe and skill in the strategy of legislative wrangling, he had made himself Democratic floor leader in the House. In four years more?four strenuous years of war time activity?he had brought on himself a stroke of paralysis from overwork. For three years...
Recent utterances by Scotland Yard men indicate that investigations in England will disclose even more startling contrasts. The committee will then submit its annual report, which will be published as part of the Report of the Bar Association. While there is no direct connection between the committee's work and the passage of remedial legislation in the various states, its report will be considered authoritative and will aid those seeking statutory changes...