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James Ramsay MacDonald is never so happy as when burring out sonorous periods on the subject of his great specialty "the Peace of the Wor-r-rld." Last week the silver-haired Scot, fresh from his summer's rustication in Nova Scotia, was busily ensconced at No. 10 Downing St. with experts of the British Admiralty. They had hoped he would take things easy and let the Admiralty dictate to Foreign Secretary Sir John Simon what course the Empire shall steer at the 1935 Naval Conference. Instead the Prime Minister assumed full charge last week, letting it be known...
This piece of rhetoric was not a quotation from an inquiry into the burning of the Mono Castle or any other maritime disaster but a high-flown attack on William Walker McLellan, an aging Scot from Glasgow. About a year after the Titanic sank, Mr. McLellan bought a small chain of stores in North Carolina...
...Bedford Bennett sped to Quebec as the trig little liner Duchess of Richmond steamed in from Liverpool. Aboard was the Prime Minister of Great Britain, James Ramsay MacDonald, and his Housekeeper-Daughter Ishbel, on a three-month Canadian vacation. Whisked off by Premier Bennett, silver-haired, 67-year-old Scot MacDonald was soon sailing across the Bay of Fundy, driving up to a tiny cottage in Digby for the rest which eye-strain has imposed on him. As Ishbel sent out for more vases to hold the flowers which Digby's New Scotlanders brought to the door, a telephone...
Against death while traveling by rail on Britain's famed Royal Scot, Lloyd's will insure a passenger at the rate of one shilling per ?1.000 (approximately 25? per $5.000). Against death while flying on Imperial Airways Lloyd's will insure a passenger at the same rate...
...insurance against accidental death on the Twentieth Century costs 25? per $5.000 or about the same as on the Royal Scot. For the same New York-Chicago trip on American Airlines' new sleeper plane the rate...