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That breezy little Scot B. (for Bertie) C. (Charles) Forbes went back to 1928 to find anything like it, but the nation's storekeepers were glad to chant: "The best holiday trade since 1930." Christmas shopping in Washington started ten days earlier and was 30%, ahead of last year. Two big Atlanta department stores reported their business up 25%. In Memphis and Dallas there were merchants who were rubbing their hands over 50%, increases. Toy buying in Chicago was the best since boom days. And sober estimates last week placed the probable dollar volume of holiday buying 16%, above...
...John Alexander MacDonald. The Glasgow Scot who roughed out the British North America Act at the Westminster Palace Hotel in London and after it passed became Canada's first Premier...
...Scot MacDonald's freezing answer to Scot Maxton...
When their Lordships rose, the sedition-squelcher had passed second reading after lurid revelations by Baron Allen of Hurtwood, a close friend of Scot MacDonald. "A plot has been discovered to seize the British Broadcasting House and make a coup d'état like that attempted in Vienna last July," began Lord Allen. He ended by admitting that the plotters "went no further than to think of preparation of plans...
...free the family pet, Grandma Goodhue's caged red bird, shot guns were taken off the wall. The posse that had set out to hang Pa Goodhue lost its nerve, but that night somebody shot him in the dark. His murderer almost got away to the war scot-free; just in time Clay found out who it was, paid the family debt and went West where there was no war, no Abolitionists...