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...Scot Henderson, courting European favor, made a long speech contradicting President Hoover's intimation to the International Chamber of Commerce that armament costs rather than high tariffs are the particular cause of Depression about which something should be done at once (TIME, May 18). "Among causes contributing to World Depression." cried Free-Trader Henderson, "the magnitude and high level of protective tariffs rank first and foremost...
Trick on Austria, As expected, the League Council shifted to the World Court last week the job of passing on the legality of the Austro-German attempt to form a "customs union" or Zollverein (TIME, March 30, et seq.). Scot Henderson at this point nearly took Austrian Dr. Johann Schober into camp...
...Aberdeen, Scotland, Scot Robert Bruce saw his barn on fire, rushed in to save his cows. As he went in for the last one, he was overcome by smoke, but saw the animal he was after dash by him in a panic. Hazily Robert Bruce reached up, grasped the animal's tail, was dragged in a hurry into the open...
...deal wi' me as severely as ye like," retorted the Scot, "put that in yer pipe and smoke...
...fearing Church of Englander, Sir Esmond reported to Scot MacDonald (TIME, May 5, 1930), "there is no religious persecution in Russia . . . but . . . priests are . . . deprived of all civil rights. . . . Christianity has already disappeared among the youth of Russia and is being supplanted by Communism...