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...Other luncheon guests were retiring Federal Housing Administrator James Andrew Moffett & Wife Kim. Another guest, on hand to receive his engraved commission, was Mr. Moffett's successor and good friend Stewart McDonald. A hale & hearty Scot with the shrewd ways and natty attire of Wall Street, Stewart McDonald has been FHA's acting chief in Mr. Moffett's summer-long absence. Marrying into the St. Louis wagon-making family of Moon, Stewart McDonald fathered one of St. Louis' most popular debutantes (Daughter Carol, now married to a son of Missouri's late Governor Gardner...
Neither Prime Minister Baldwin nor Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain believes in taking either Press or Public into the remotest outskirts of his confidence. After a five-hour sitting the Cabinet rose. Again only Scot MacDonald had anything to say. "I am very cheery and quiet and cool," he burbled. "We have a very clear mind as to what is to be done...
...days later London learned that the Cabinet, before dispersing, had left ab solute discretion to the Imperial Defense Committee, nicely deployed between its pacifist chairman Scot MacDonald and a bristling array of Admiralty, Air Force and Army chiefs. In papers close to the Admiralty a, great uproar was made about Britain's Mediterranean base at Malta being now so weak as to be vulnerable to Italian air attack. Amid that utter fog which British statesmen so often find useful in masking their intentions, the Government created a sensation by announcing that several units of the Mediterranean fleet which went...
...Scot, a Spaniard, a Pole and two U. S. natives. Rated best of the lot were the Russian, William Samuel Schwartz, and the two U. S. natives, Aaron Bohrod and Francis Chapin, ranking among Chicago artists along with the two Albright brothers...
...Scot J. Jeffrey Grant, 52, commercial artist, who pleased and comforted with conventional Gloucester fishing smacks and street scenes...