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Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, seeking a safe constituency for the King's silver-haired, silver-tongued friend, arranged for MacDonald to contest a seat representing the Scottish Universities, notwithstanding that as Labor Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald sought and failed some years ago to combine the three Scottish Universities' seats into one. Last week the Scottish academicians recognized that Mr. MacDonald is now as Conservative as any man in the Kingdom, sent him to the House of Commons where Conservatives cheered and Laborites jeered. C. Speeded extension of Unemployment...
...impossible" for him to bear the title Edward VIII. He is, the Scots stubbornly contended, King Edward II of the United Kingdom, since England's first six Edwards were Kings neither of Scotland nor of the United Kingdom. In many things His Majesty must defer to his Scottish subjects. Indeed the first act of any British Monarch after his accession is to take the oath by which he swears to defend the Church of Scotland. Last week's row about "Edward II," however, was simply ignored by Edward VIII. He officially designated his mother "Queen Mary...
...work for his living" as a coal dealer. An all-round horseman, he har had many a nasty spill, broke his hip playing polo 14 years ago and has walked with a halting gait ever since. Says he: "I'm better on four legs than two." Of Scottish ancestry, he is prouder of being a Yankee who was born in Israel Putnam's house in Greenwich, Conn. A Ph.D., LL.D., he is prouder of his legs, which he considers a finer pair for riding than Edward of Wales's. He has hunted a great deal in England...
Most people who take their theatre-going seriously managed to see Helen Hayes in Mary of Scotland, one of the dramatic events of 1934. Memorable sequence in that play was the hapless Scottish queen's leave-taking from her lover Bothwell (Philip Merivale). Minus swords and capes to heighten the drama, Miss Hayes as the dumpy little royal matron of Victoria Regina manages to pack an astonishing amount of tragic power into her dismay at Albert's fatal chill...
...remained seated where Fate had placed him. Next day Viscountess Astor elaborately demonstrated what a lady she is by arriving early, taking her favorite seat, and then as Old George came in, rising with a sneer "to give the gentleman my seat." ¶ Observed with further distaste efforts by Scottish Laborite Jock McGovern to make his stubborn point that members of the Royal Family, considering the size of their private incomes, are paid too much. If a worker is shown by the so-called "means test" to have more than an absolute minimum of income he cannot draw dole payments...