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City fathers, bankers, businessmen, churchmen and miscellaneous bigwigs of Houston, Tex., gathered in Scottish Rite Cathedral for a solemn celebration of Jesse Holman Jones Day. In the audience, the big, genial chairman of Reconstruction Finance Corp. bowed his head, heard seven speakers eulogize him as a publicist, charitarian, politician, financier, "the most dominant and dynamic individual factor in the upbuilding and progress of our great city." Then a bronze bust was unveiled. Said Houstonman Jones: "I almost feel as if I have been listening to a funeral oration...
...story of The Little Minister concerns the Scottish village of Thrums and the alarm which overtakes its devout residents when they learn that Mr. Dishart (John Beal), the rector at Auld Licht, has fallen in love with a gypsy. The panic in the parish is only exceeded by that of Mr. Dishart himself who, when he becomes aware of the state of his feelings, decides that the gypsy is a wanton. Actually, as the audience knows, Babbie is not a prowling vagrant at all, but the ward of Lord Rintoul, who lives in a castle...
...most extraordinary passenger on the Aquitania as that Cunard-White Star liner steamed out of Southampton for New York last week was a pretty Scottish nursemaid whose name was not printed in the passenger list. She was whisked incognito to her cabin, where a stalwart British stewardess was posted before the door to keep out undesirable visitors. Nurse Betty Gow, from whose care the world's most famed baby was snatched on the windy night of March 1, 1932, was returning to the U. S. Surrounded by all the melodrama of a penny-dreadful, Nurse Gow, it was whispered...
...Lake Forest cattle firm of Anderson & Findlay imported from Scotland the first herd of pure-bred Aberdeen Angus. A few years before, a white-bearded Scottish landowner named William McCombie had, by a process of delicate selectivity, developed the short-legged, short-necked, squat, hornless, sleek-black creatures. In Lake Forest, Anderson & Findlay's big Angus bull had soon serviced five Angus cows, and before long other breeders, in Kansas, in Iowa, were adding Anguses to their herds. The blacks began taking prizes, first at local shows, then at the Chicago Fat Show, and then, at the first (1900) International...
...Were informed by Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain that the National Government will set up a "Destitute Areas Fund" of ?2,000,000 ($10,000,000) to be used in rehabilitating the Depression-blasted regions of South Wales, Northern England and the Scottish Clydebank. "While most parts of the country now have a feeling of hope and confidence," said Chancellor Chamberlain, ''there remains in the depressed areas an atmosphere of stagnation and listlessness which arises from a chronic condition of poverty and privation...