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...family emerged in Titusville, Pa. in 1874, when Mary Anderson, whose family had pioneered in the oil fields, married Joseph Newton Pew (Welsh-English-Scottish-Irish, with a dash of Dutch and Palatinate blood), descendant of pre-Revolutionary traders, who had religious scruples against selling Indians fire water. After a massacre of settlers at Bushy Run, the early Pews developed practical scruples against selling Indians powder & shot. These scruples brought trade to a standstill, and the Pews became farmers. In 1859 they got in on Pennsylvania's first oil boom, struck it rich, stayed that way. Joseph...
Zeal. Lion's share of credit for organizing cooperatives goes to Rewi Alley. Descended from an early Scottish-Irish family of New Zealand settlers, he took his first name from a native New Zealand chief. He served in World War I, then went to China and to work for the Shanghai Municipal Council. In 15 years he made himself the best-informed man in the world on Chinese industrial conditions...
...play concerns a Scotswoman (Pauline Lord) who, some 20 years before the play begins, was accused of some Lizzie-Bordenish ax murders and let off with the ignominious Scottish verdict Not Proven. She changes her name and lives down her past, but when her son becomes engaged, his fiancee's godfather spots the mother. In his efforts to trap her, and hers not to be trapped, the play becomes fairly dramatic. But a play should become fairly dramatic before...
...propaganda sheet for the Irish Republicans and giving aid and comfort to them in their nefarious work of terrorism and assassination of innocents. . . .I strongly suspect that this article on Eire was slipped over on TIME's editors by a clever Irish Republican schemer and deceiver. The Scottish-Irish of Northern Ireland. . . .are as determined today as ever that they shall remain British and Protestant; their banner is inscribed now, as in the day of William of Orange, with this proud slogan: " NO SURRENDER." Let the Irish terrorists start a fight if they want to, then they shall...
...role by the director of the Paris Opera Comique, although Debussy had agreed that Maeterlinck's newlywed wife (and longtime mistress), Georgette Leblanc, should have it. Maeterlinck, vexed, publicly hoped that the opera would be a failure; there was much pamphleteering against it; Mary Garden's Scottish-American accenting of "Je ne suis pas heureuse" was roundly jeered. But Pelleas...