Word: scots
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chairman: "Are you a Scot?" Applicant: "Yes." Chairman: "Have you ever read John Knox's Book of Discipline?" Applicant...
What he did submit was a 20-year new deal for the West Indies. If the British Exchequer were as big as little Scot MacDonald's heart he would put every blackamoor in the islands on Easy Street. But all he could expect to get from a war-pressed Parliament was $4,000,000 a year, to be spent for West Indian education, slum clearance, land settlement, labor departments. On all British colonies, Mr. MacDonald proposed to spend $20,000,000 a year for ten years. In addition to their specific allotment, the West Indies may share in this...
...that the market breathed easier in late August when Britain forced its nationals (holders of better than half of the Allied hoard) to register their U. S. securities, sell them only with Government permission. Last week it breathed still more freely when Britain announced that Scot Securities Tycoon T. J. Carlyle Gilford was in Manhattan to handle the orderly liquidation of British holdings...
...nervous Nellie to be panicked into witless sales is tweedy, fiftyish Scot Gifford, Edinburgh solicitor, chairman of eight British investment trusts, director of 22 British companies. Nor will he be a sucker for casual Wall Street advice. Twenty-five percent of the investment portfolios of many British investment trusts is in U. S. securities, and Scot Gifford has long known his way around the Street as well as around the City...
...stock their man's first showcase, the British Government requisitioned outright all British holdings in 60 U. S. stocks. To His Majesty's subjects His Majesty's Government will pay the market price of their securities as of Feb. 17 in sterling. As Scot Gifford sells them here, the British Government will pocket its dollars for future U. S. material purchases, will thus have added to its present hoard of $2,600,000,000 in liquid gold and dollars. On Solicitor Gifford's first list were equities in plenty of profitable U. S. industries -Du Pont...