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...course, negotiations had reached total deadlock. The Latin delegations?maneuvered by M. Briand who himself spoke seldom?had dodged the Snowden attack by treating it as bluff. Such a wild man, they indicated, could not be speaking for British Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald, that sane and steady Scot. The full staggering power of Chancellor Snowden's punches was not felt until Mr. MacDonald officially declared: "In view of the statements so widely read on the Continent that Mr. Snowden is bluffing, I want to make it perfectly clear that the claims he is making that Great Britain...
...Scottish camp Edward of Wales lit his pipe, threw the match on the ground. Canny, a young Scot picked it up, auctioned it off for five shillings...
...Seven years ago, while he was still founder-president of the since-merged National City Bank of Chicago, Scot Forgan was approached by two young men about to start a new business. They wanted him to buy some of their stock at $25 the share. Looking down his straight strong nose, Banker Forgan declared he could buy no stock. Said he: "I'm just a poor mon and I wor-rk for a sollery...
Member Alfred S. Austrian, able attorney, was not-so-good golfer. He could barely "break" (score less than) 100. He offered Club Professional George A. Neill $10,000 if he could teach him to break 80. Scot Neill set to work on Member Austrian. Weeks passed. Came at last a day when the Austrian score added up to only 78, then came a 79, 77. Honest, grateful, member Austrian paid the promised $10,000. Scot Neill then asked him why he had been so anxious to break 80. The Austrian reply...
John Norton Smith is an extremely dour Scot from Fifeshire where normally he is a carpenter*. No brilliance attends his game but only the grimmest determination. His idiosyncrasies: chalking the face of his wooden clubs with blue chalk, waxing the handle of his irons before the difficult shot. To Cyril Tolley who won it at Muirfield nine years ago again went the championship. He, a links behemoth, has obtained most fame from his prodigious drives. In 1923 at Troon he drove to the green on a 350-yard hole. Last week his drives were still spectacular and, rare...