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...Butler's ancestors were predominantly Scottish, miraculously changed their name from Buchanan to Butler when they immigrated...
Skirling out of Iowa's tall corn fields, University of Iowa students have formed one of the most unique student musical organization in the U. S. Dressed in colorful plaids ornamented with authentic Scotch paraphernalia, the R. O. T. C. Scottish Highlanders are giving an unusual color to Hawkeye gridiron pageants. The carefully selected group that makes up this unusual musical unit is composed of a drum major, 21 pipers, two base drummers, eight snare and five tenor drummers, and four lassies who dance the highland fling. Organized in 1935 by Col. George F. N. Dailey, the unit...
...trained for ambulance driving (requirements: change wheels, spark plugs, back 100 yds. in total darkness); she put other thousands to work making bandages, nightshirts, stuffing mattresses; more took over the recruiting, classification and transporting of blood and blood donors; under Lady Denman, and Mrs. Walter Elliot-the latter a Scottish sheep farmer and wife of a onetime Minister of Agriculture-25,000 girls were sent to agricultural schools for a month and then, when they learned to plow, milk, drive tractors, onto the land. All this was done without costing the Government sixpence (except rent, stationery and the salaries...
Before sailing for France with the 15th Canadian General Hospital contingent, Sir Frederick Grant Banting, co-discoverer of insulin, addressed in Boston the supreme council of 33rd Degree Scottish Rite Masons, predicted: "Scientists, like musicians, cannot do their work under fear of air raids and other disasters. The uncertainties of war will bottle up the products of creative minds and many of them will crack. There will be an incidence of mental disorders, because the person of highly sensitive nature will be affected...
Died. Colonel Charles Glenn Collins. 59, Scottish soldier of fortune; in Vicksburg, Miss. His career included action in South Africa with the British Army, marriage with one U. S. heiress and three foiled elopements with another (the fourth succeeded), World War decoration by England, France and Canada, extradition in 1923 to India to stand trial for an $18,000 jewelry fraud (later acquitted), eventual domestication with a third wife in Mississippi...