Word: scotlanders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile, in Edinburgh, Scotland, Mrs. Jessie Wallace Jordan, a 51-year-old British-born hairdresser who became a German citizen by marriage, was tried for espionage. Main evidence against Mrs. Jordan was her sketches of certain unidentified County of Fife fortifications (presumably a huge aviation training airdrome at Leuchars, near Dundee, or a submarine base at Rosyth on the Firth of Forth). With 42 Crown witnesses ready to testify against her, Hairdresser Jordan changed her plea to guilty, was sentenced to four years' hard labor. Startling was the connection between this sober bit of Scottish espionage and the slapstick...
...death, and who formerly as William Ormsby-Gore was Colonial. Secretary, is succeeded in that post by Malcolm MacDonald, son of the late great Ramsay; Lord Stanley becomes Dominions Secretary, the office vacated by Mr. MacDonald; and Major Walter Elliot is made Health Minister, relinquishing the Secretaryship for Scotland to Lieut. Colonel David John Colville, formerly Financial Secretary to the Treasury...
...drab, run-down streets of industrial Glasgow, Scotland's largest city, were face-lifted with banners & bunting last week as their Majesties, King George VI and his Scottish Queen, Elizabeth, arrived to open officially Glasgow's $50,000,000 Empire Exhibition. Glasgow citizens, 50,000 of whom are still unemployed despite the Clydebank's shipbuilding and rearmament boom, lined the streets and cheered lustily as the royal couple, riding in an open landau drawn by spanking Windsor greys, jogged out to the exhibition site, wooded Bellahouston Park. There in the neighboring Ibrox soccer stadium before...
...well over half a million visitors had entered the gates of the 175-acre park. Entirely a "family affair" designed to further British Empire trade relations, the exhibition is made up of pavilions representing the Home Country, the Dominions, various Crown colonies and two special halls showing off Scotland to the empire...
...John Donne and Recent Criticism of Poetry," will be the subject of a lecture by Sir Herbert Grierson, Professor of Aberdeen University Scotland, in Emerson D, Thursday, April 28 at 4:30 o'clock. Sir Herbert is credited with several standard texts on poetry and is one of the authors of the Cambridge History of English Literature. He is speaking under the auspices of the Morris Gray Poetry Fund...