Word: scotlanders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...George Buchanan, Clydesdale Laborite, was expected to introduce a bill demanding home rule for Scotland. It was stated that the bill "provides for a single Chamber of 148 members while executive power is vested in the King, who will be advised in matters pertaining to Scotland by a committee to be named by the Scottish Parliament...
...many years been a member of the United States Diplomatic Service as Secretary of Legation and Embassy, Charge d'Affaires, and Ambassador, as well as United States Delegate at five International Conferences between 1886 and 1919. Honorary degrees have been conferred upon him by St. Andrew's University, Scotland, Johns Hopkins, and, in 1917, by Harvard. In 1905 Mr. White was appointed ambassador to Italy, and two years later ambassador to France. In 1910 he became chairman of the American delegation to the fourth Pan-American Conference at Buenos Aires, and the same year, special ambassador to Chile...
...Referring to Arizona's admission to the Union, he prophesied that "before many years" there would be a 49th state.* "In general the States should not surrender, but retain their own sovereignty and keep control of their own government."¶ Dr. George Adam Smith, rector of Aberdeen University, Scotland, was presented to the President by Chief Justice Taft. Mr. Coolidge was "interested and pleased" when Dr. Smith explained that his son "was completing his education" at the State Agricultural College at Ames, Iowa.¶ President Coolidge authorized a statement that he will not address the Republican National Convention...
...player and referee, and is at present, Vice-president of the Boston Referee's Association. During the match between the English and Scotch team in this country last year, Mr. White was the referee. In his youth, he was a well known payer on junior teams in Scotland. While in this country, he has always been prominently identified with the game, playing with the Boston Rovers, and for two years, managing the championship Riverdale team...
...debate on the Johnson measure was enlivened by undignified antics. Representative James A. Gallivan, Democrat of Massachusetts, denounced the Ku Klux influence back of the measure. Said he: "You seem to forget that only the other day your ancestors were alien, the sons of England, and France, Ireland and Scotland, Germany, Italy, Poland, Russia and other lands. Wherever the immigrant has gone schools have sprung up, industries have flourished, trade has increased, wealth has multiplied, prosperity has bloomed and patriotism, peace, law, order, intelligence and happiness follow in his footsteps...