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...months later Laborite James Ramsay MacDonald won Labor's greatest victory in the general election of May 1929 and sent Mr. Bald win packing. Again three years ago the tide was seen to turn when Labor suffered a net loss of 80 municipal seats in November 1930. Scot MacDonald turned his political coat with the tide, joined forces with Conservative Baldwin, announced himself a "National Laborite" (for which he was expelled by the Labor Party) and has carried on as Prime Minister of the "National" (actually Conservative) Government since the Conservative landslide in the last general election (TIME...
...from Louisville, Ky. where it had been exhibited, the Royal Scot, crack London-to-Edinburgh train which was brought to the U. S. for A Century of Progress, struck and killed one Charles Lee Mitchell, 22, while passing through Reed, Ky. Engineer William Gilbertson did not know he had killed a man, continued his run to St. Louis...
...Economic Conference" by refusing to stabilize the dollar (TIME, July 10 et seq.). In London Mr. Davis called on Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald who was still snorting over what he considered the President's omission to act in currency matters along the line privately agreed upon when Scot MacDonald visited the White House (TIME, May 8). If the Geneva Disarmament Conference is to make progress Mr. MacDonald must feel confident that this time he and Mr. Roosevelt know each other's minds without possibility of misunderstanding. Last week Ambassador Davis was said to have brought Scot MacDonald...
...observed from the above, this is a novel about England written by a Scot. What is more to the point, it is written by a Scot whose prize stock is a dour sense of satirical nuance. Mr. Macdonnell disguises himself as Donald Cameron, relic of the World War, unemployed Highlander, prospective author of a "book about England." If the skeleton is cumbrous, if humor finds oblivion in an hospitable close, there is enough flaunting of kills to satisfy the average reader. For some mysterious reason, Mr. Christopher Morley was asked to write an introduction...
Underdog. Large among Odhams' assets on entering the newspaper business were two men. One was a grey, square Scot named John Dunbar, dour and extraordinarily shrewd. The other was a swart, stumpy Jew named Julius Salter Elias. Dunbar was made managing editor of the Herald, Elias the chairman and managing director. Rich Publisher Elias, no newsman, is one of the ablest businessmen on Fleet Street. He put John Bull on its feet following the downfall of its former publisher, the late, notorious Horatio Bottomley. Ambitious, he openly seeks a title, and he will get none so long as Scot...