Word: scotlanders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Finally, the Empire's settled conviction that Stanley Baldwin always means well is as a pillar of potency to the members of his Cabinet. It enabled Home Secretary Sir William ("Jix") Joynson-Hicks to bring off in triumph the safe-blowing raid by Scotland Yard on Soviet trade headquarters in London (TIME, May 23), even though Sir William later admitted that the police did not find the "stolen State papers" which they were supposed to be seeking. At present, the Secretary of State for India, the Earl of Birkenhead, is drawing heavily on Mr. Baldwin's impeccable moral...
...Think of it, brethren! . . . Rather a base and contemptible piece of diplomacy, methinks. My old college friend,* the Ambassador to the Court of St. James's fled to the highlands of Scotland to avoid meeting the distinguished tourist...
...earl is the great-grandson of that Lord Elgin who found the "Elgin" marbles scattered over the Acropolis at Athens. He picked them up and carried them to England. The present earl, who lives at Dunfermline, Scotland, where Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919) was born, is an honorary colonel of the City of Edinburgh and, more importantly, chairman of the Carnegie United Kingdom Trust. That institution (endowment £2,000,000) is the analog of the Carnegie Trust Corp. of New York (endowment $125,000,000). Its purpose, Carnegie ordered, was "for the improvement of the well-being of the masses...
...second visiting debater is Andrew Haddon of the University of Edinburgh. Haddon is 23 years old and was born at Howick, Roxburghshire, Scotland. He is a grand-nephew of J. B. Selkirk, one of the best known of Scotland's minor poets, while his father is Lieutenant Colonel Haddon, a lawyer by profession, and a soldier by virtue of a lifelong connection with the Volunteer and Territorial Armies...
...John Gilmour to the office of Lord Rector of Edinburgh University, he was abducted by the Liberals and held captive. Haddon has served as secretary, vice-president, and president of the Edinburgh University Unionist Association, and is a member of the International Committee of the Students' Representative Councils of Scotland. Haddon is also head of the travel department of that organization in Edinburgh...