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Obviously the canny Scot was testing public sentiment with a trial balloon, but he let it be said that he now favors enactment of a blanket 8% tariff on all imports, even foodstuffs and antiques...
Fast fox-trot and tango were won by a red-cheeked Scot with a pronounced burr, Roger McEwan of Glasgow. With his sister Alice he jogged and pranced through the fast fox-trot (he calls it the Quick-step). Swifter than that of 1929, it has more jigs, zigzags, nickers, turns and quarter-turns. One turn, for its peculiar twist, he calls the Lock & Key. Music 54 bars to the minute supplies the rhythms...
...Pacifist Party!" The act had passed first reading by a comfortable majority. But now came a Labor surprise attack from one of Scot MacDonald's own henchmen, ebullient Commander Joseph Montague Kenworthy...
...Scot MacDonald refused. Mr. Brockway in his white cap persisted amid cries of "Order! Order!" When he would not come to order the Speaker "named" him. Mr. MacDonald moved his suspension and the House proceeded to vote it by strolling off into the division lobbies. It was then that a supreme rupture of precedent occurred, electrifying and dumfounding every Briton present...
...peer and then sent him to India as Viceroy? None other than the late Conservative Government (1924-29) in which the Earl of Birkenhead was Secretary of State for India. Last week Conservative papers called their Viceroy a "silly dreamer," accused him of having gone pinko-Socialist to please Scot MacDonald...