Word: scotlanders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only private army in the British Empire is the Army of Atholl, three Scots infantry companies permitted the Dukes of Atholl by Queen Victoria.* Last July their commander, tall, hearty Sir John George Stewart-Murray, eighth Duke of Atholl. "richest man in Scotland." began to sell what he vowed were not lottery tickets. Proceeds of the sale, his agents announced, "shall be disposed of in such manner as the Duke of Atholl shall, in his absolute and uncontrolled discretion, think fit." Some 337,000 Englishmen had enough faith in the Duke of Atholl's dis cretion...
...right. I believe now that it is true since I have done these things here. Yet I don't like it." Most of the newshawks' questions he answered with "I know nothing about it," but waxed enthusiastic about his vacation: "The grouse-shooting was wonderful. In Scotland you have the beautiful rolling heather-covered hills, with the passing sunlit clouds. I'm feeling wonderful, if that's any interest...
...CRANK IN THE CORNER-Christopher Bush - Morrow ($2). Ludovic Travers, traveling, encounters murder in his own compartment. Himself suspect, he investigates, shares honors with both Surete and Scotland Yard...
TRAITORS WITHIN-Herbert T. Fitch- Doubleday, Doran ($2). Documented memoirs of a real Scotland Yarder, with intimate glimpses of such notables as Lenin, Trotsky, King George, the glamorous Angelica Balabaroff...
Soon the shocking word flew through Scotland, through England: a mutiny of enlisted men on the Hood! Everyone remembered that the September mutiny two years ago broke out while the Atlantic fleet was stationed near Invergordon, a few miles from Nigg (TIME, Sept. 28, 1931). Stiffly Sir Bolton Eyres-Mon-sell, First Lord of the Admiralty, arched his right eyebrow a little higher with a denial. He said that certain maneuvers in the North Sea whither the Hood was bound had been postponed because of "heavy gales." At the Admiralty offices in London, the duty officer in command refused...