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...Rollo Frederick Graham-Campbell fidgeted beneath his robes and wig. Royal Dukes, Archbishops and Dukes are the top dogs of the British peerage, and below Sir Rollo, quietly awaiting judgment as a prisoner, stood that jovial, ruddy sporting peer, His Grace the Duke of Atholl, lord of 200,000 Scottish acres, master of the only private army in Great Britain and a War hero who won by conspicuous bravery in action...
...Drake's Drum," Coleridge-Taylor; "Shoot False Love," Morley; and choruses from "The Gondoliers," Sullivan. After an intermission, Harvard will continue with "When His Loud Voice" from "Jeptha," Handel; "The Pedlar," Russian folk song; "Crudele Irene," Italian folk Song; "The Old Maid's Song," Kentucky folk song; "Bonnie Dundee," Scottish folk song; and several football songs. Yale will then sing a medley of college songs...
...invited to its headship a famed Scottish lawyer, son of a Scottish parson, Hugh Pattison Macmillan, Baron Macmillan of Aberfeldy, co-author of the brilliant "Macmillan Report" of the British Treasury Committee on Finance & Industry. So sound and lucid was it that it became the only Blue Book ever published in Britain to net a profit. Second member of the Commission was another son of a Scottish parson, Sir Charles Addis, onetime director of the Bank of England. These two Scotsmen Premier Bennett balanced with two Canadian bankers, Sir William Thomas White and Beaudry Leman. To give Western Canada...
...marries, his sister kills herself; the community discovers they were living in incest. The worst white man on a little island attracts the attention of a withered spinster-missionary; to the amused amazement of everyone except the predatory virgin, she conquers him. The man-eating Russian wife of a Scottish scientist tries to get her claws on her husband's priggish young assistant; his heredity and the environment of a storm rescue him, ruin her. A red-blooded Britisher, finding himself a cuckold, prepares to do the traditionally manly thing; takes wiser advice in time...
...currency. . . . If the [NRA] experiment fails it means another period of depression in the United States and that cannot occur without hav ing its effect on us." Same night in London the Roosevelt experiment was sardonically described by Sir Josiah Stamp, rotund Board Chairman of the London, Midland & Scottish Railway, a Director of the Bank of England and a leading Empire economist often consulted by Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald. "They began by rattling President Roosevelt's new powers like a bag of tools," smiled Sir Josiah. "They hoped he might never have to use them...