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...living have been more beloved by their friends or maligned by their acquaintances than Ramsay MacDonald. A sentimental Lowland Scot who loved to write sad verses for his friends,* he was a founder of the British Labor Party, the first person to bring it to a position of importance in British affairs, three times Prime Minister of Great Britain and an intimate personal friend of King George V. Yet "traitor" was a word hurled at him over & over throughout the last 20 years. Because he spoke out loudly against British entry in the World War in 1914 he was ostracized...
Speaking for C.I.O. was Philip Murray, 52, calm, suave chairman of the Steel Workers Organizing Committee. He it was who negotiated the details of C.I.O.'s contract with U. S. Steel Corp. A Scot from Lanark, his opponent in those negotiations was another miner's son, Benjamin Franklin Fairless, last week named as Big Steel's next president (see p. 59). (As they started their talks, Steelman Fairless, recalling that his father, too, had been a union man, said to Laborman Murray: ". . . Call me Ben." In his soft burr, Mr. Murray replied: "Yes, Mr. Fairless...
...John Hay Whitney's Flying Scot, ridden by Jockey John Gilbert: the $35,000 Arlington Classic, feature race of the season at Chicago's swank Arlington Park; by half a length from Eagle Pass, owned by Emerson F. Woodward of Houston...
...throttle of the royal train as Their Majesties returned to London this week was Engineer Tom Clarke whose regular job is to drive the Coronation Scot, the latest and most lushly appointed British streamlined train. The-famed Flying Scotsman], hitherto the fastest London-Edinburgh train, makes the 392 miles in 7½ hrs. The Coronation Scot has cut this to six hours flat...
Jacob Baur died in 1912, left his 55% interest to his wife and daughter. In 1926 they realized $3,000,000 by selling out to a banking group. President then and chairman now is a blue-eyed, bulb-nosed Iowa Scot named Walter Kenneth Mclntosh who has been in the company since 1902. Married but childless, he commutes from suburban Oak Park, draws a salary of $27,000. '"Liquid" employes call him "Mr. Mac." Under Mr. Mac, "Liquid" came through Depression with flying colors, lost money only in 1932. In 1930, it made $1,786,000 on sales...