Word: scotlanders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reciprocated. The Sultan, to his vast delight, was made an Hon. Fellow of the Scottish Zoological Society. Finally Mrs. Wilson divorced Dr. Wilson and went back to Scotland. Fast followed the Sultan. In London last October they were married in Woking Mosque, were later received by King George & Queen Mary...
Elected. General Jan Christian Smuts, to be rector of the University of St. Andrews, Scotland, defeating Scottish-born banking & shipping Tycoon James Lyle Mackay, Earl of Inchcape, 466-286. The rectorship, honorary post which may be held in absentia, has been graced since 1919 by Sir James Matthew Barrie, Rudyard Kipling, the late Fridtjof Nansen, Sir Wilfred Thomason Grenfell...
Perpetually pinched for money, kept close under their father's thumb are the two oldest sons of the "Richest Man in the World," His Exalted Highness the Nizam of Hyderabad. To a sporting acquaintance at Gleneagles, Scotland, last summer the Crown Prince of Hyderabad stated his views on marriage thus: "I like horses. They are more dependable than women. If a horse throws you it will stand by until you get on your feet...
Secretary of State for Scotland, Sir Archibald Sinclair, National Liberal...
Whatever the faults of America's present system of university education, it must be admitted that nowhere--save perhaps in Scotland--is there so general a demand for education, so universal a faith in its sovereign power of ministering to success. America has about 920,000 college and university students. There were about 145 colleges and universities under public control, 520 under private control and 260 junior colleges in the United States in 1926, according to The World Almanac. The value of their property alone, in 1927, was estimated at $2,413,748,981. The spiritual returns from this investment...