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...Gustave Gillman did not win. Many of his words were rejected as Scottish slang, dialect, obsolete. Contestant Gillman later lost a similar contest held by Consolidated Cigar Corp., won an out-of-court settlement on the prize money. With this experience behind him he filed suit against Phillips Chemical for all of the $600, charging that the judges had fraudulently deleted words from his lists. Last April the case was tried in Manhattan Municipal Court before Referee John M. Cragen. Vigorously Plaintiff Gillman challenged the findings of Contest Judges Walter K. Van Olinda and Andrew J. Davis, both of whom...
...feeling last week that evidently Britons do not understand how little Italy wants in Africa, their Little King sat down in his Quirinal Palace and wrote to King George, asking him to explain things in London? or so the British Reuters Agency reported. George V, having finished up his Scottish grouse shooting, announced that he would return to Buckingham Palace this week several days ahead of schedule. All his life a practical Navy man, His Majesty was far more alive than politicians like Squire Baldwin to the queer fact that big guns have a way of going off by themselves...
President. Last year at Aberdeen, Sir Josiah Stamp, voluble economist, director of the Bank of England, chairman of the London, Midland & Scottish Railway, engaged in a spirited, if indirect, debate with Sir James Jeans. Sir Josiah contended in effect that science was causing too much technological unemployment, had better take a holiday (TIME, Sept. 17, 1934). This year at Norwich the same Sir Josiah was elected president of the British Association for the Advancement of Science for the coming year. Sir Josiah promptly proved that this honor had not changed him in the slightest by delivering a discourse which...
...their redoubtable Frank Nathan Daniel Buchman, the team included a one-time Scottish Communist, a French marquise, the Copenhagen tap dancer, the Bishop of Rangoon, an admiral, a British M. P., a daughter of the Governor of the National Bank of Egypt and a Burmese lady who told correspondents: "My name means cool, calm, pleasant mist." Between good dinners and spiritual lobbying in Geneva, Dr. Buchman took 50 members of his team on a flying trip to Berne. There in the Parliament House awaited President Rudolf Minger flanked by his cabinet...
Harried by the police, who suspect him of murdering the counterspy, by the members of the ring, who soon find out that he is on their trail, and by a charming young lady (Madeleine Carroll) whom he picks up in the course of a wild night on the Scottish moors, Hannay plunges through a series of hairbreadth escapes and escapades, some of them horrifying, some of them extraordinarily funny. The funniest, possibly, is the one in which, mistaken at a political meeting for the speaker of the evening, he makes himself the hero of the occasion by an address composed...