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...hear arguments ... is more than stupid. It is bad." Demos continued, however, to boo Stanley's friend Ramsay off the boards and the only speech Mr. MacDonald was able to finish last week he made in a soundproof broadcasting studio at Newcastle. Beside himself with worry, the pathetic Scot seemed to forget that it was Ramsay MacDonald who insisted on running at Seaham against the advice of friends & colleagues and blurted to a sympathetic wellwisher: "The National Government should never have put a candidate here. It will be a miracle if I am elected...
Anyone of less character than Scot MacDonald would never have fought Seaham four years ago, and last week his friends said they hoped his present visit was merely an exploring expedition...
...caught cold, could not go out, wanted to see Schwab at his home. Schwab committed himself to the extent of going there, heard Morgan's offer to buy out Carnegie, consulted Mrs. Carnegie as to the most diplomatic way to present the project to the tough, white-bearded Scot who spent half his time in his Highland castle and who had planned for 30 years to retire. She advised a game of golf. On the St. Andrews links in Westchester Schwab described the proposal. When Carnegie agreed the "greatest corporate monster in history" was organized...
Jocularly Canadians were remarking that John Buchan's new title, Baron Tweedsmuir, "sounds like some new kind of suiting," but most of them were in a mood to greet indulgently the smallish, sharp-nosed, pucker-lipped Scot. Due to land at Quebec on Oct. 24 from the Empress of Britain, Lord & Lady Tweedsmuir were the prey of seafaring autograph hunters this week. Bandied merrily were the Scottish jokes which the brilliant historian, novelist and Governor-General is so adept at working in at a captain's dinner...
...biggest of all the expeditions against the Upper Mohmands poured out of Peshawar, farthest north of the hill posts. Against the few hundred rifles of the Haji's son. Britain moved into action the white-turbaned Pathans and Sikhs of the Peshawar and Nowshera Brigades, the tough, kilted Scots of the Highland Light Infantry, to a total of 15.000 men. as well as planes, mountain artillery, light tanks. Commanding was a hardened Scot of a professional British Army family. Brig.-General Claude John Eyre Auchinleck, advised by Acting Chief of Staff Major-General Eric de Burgh and Director of Military...