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...Burlington traffic was sidetracked, all spring switches spiked down. Breaking railroad records by the score, Zephyr skimmed non-stop over the 401 mi. between Denver and Harvard, Neb. at an average of 79.7 m. p. h., bettering the world mark of London Midland & Scottish Ry.'s Royal Scot (401 mi., London to Glasgow at 56 m. p. h.). At 7:10 p. m. Zephyr broke the official finish-line tape at Chicago's Halsted Street. Without stopping she had traveled 1,015 mi. in 13 hr. 5 min. at an average...
...after the late Sir John Dewar bought Raeburn's sturdy Highland portrait The M'Nab for ?25.410, his canny Scot mind was beset by doubts concerning his investment. To bolster its value he decided to use reproductions of the famed picture on advertisements of his famed whiskey. The M'Nab now hangs in the Dewar London Office, is occasionally shown to the public...
...really regrettable feature of the whole affair is that the men involved can be punished only by annulling their contracts and thereby causing them financial loss. It does not speak well for our society that a man can rob the government of millions of dollars and get away scot-free, when others are sentenced to long terms for offenses which are slight by comparison. Still worse than this is the fact that those who have committed the worst crime of all, betrayal of a public trust, are apparently not even to be prosecuted; on Postmaster General Brown and his assistant...
Crushingly the silver-haired Scot retorted: "Many thousands who have sacrificed their lives that others might live were inspired by that at which you have sneered...
...eyes of sympathetic but impartial observers Scot MacDonald has sunk in his own Cabinet until he has about the stature of a Cordell Hull, pleading vainly for such anciently good things as free trade and international concord while men of the Roosevelt and Chamberlain stamp lead their countries on to nationalism...