Word: scotlanders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tall, slender, patrician-looking President Bryan, 63, can match his college's ancient traditions, its new vigor. At one of the weekly gatherings in Richmond of his old, proud family, a guest once asked a prim maiden Stewart if she were descended from Scotland's royal family. "On the contrary," replied she, "the Kings of Scotland are descended from...
...rector in Jamaica and Westchester, N. Y. a stanch Tory, he pamphleteered against the U. S. Independence in a series of "Farmer's Letters," was imprisoned in Connecticut for six weeks in 1775. Chosen bishop by ten Connecticut churchmen, he was consecrated in 1784 in Aberdeen, Scotland because he could not properly take the British oath of allegiance. An able organizer and a strict churchman, he signed himself "Samuel Bp. Connect...
...comfortable Balmoral Castle in Scotland King George and Queen Mary had with them their youngest child, Prince-George, and his fiancée, the lovely Princess Marina. There, too, were her father and mother, Prince Nicholas and Princess Helen of Greece, for whom the King-Emporer has developed a great affection...
Last week, to make his telephones really popular, he recklessly reduced telephone rates on the British mainland to all-time lows. The daytime price for a call from Penzance in Cornwall to Thurso in northeastern Scotland, a distance of nearly 1,000 miles, will be four shillings ($1). The top price after 7 p. m. anywhere on the mainland will be one shilling. In the U. S. the cheapest comparable rate for the same distance (New York-Chicago) is $1.80. Estimated loss of British revenue the first year: ?500,000. By that time, Sir Kingsley figures, Britons will be "telephone...
Died. Hudson Ewbanke Kearley, Lord Devonport, 78, "first grocer to become a peer," head of International (chain) Stores, Britain's onetime War Food Controller; at Dunkald, Scotland...