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...Scottish fishermen sailing home along the Highland coast near Nigg last week heard the leashed rumble of heavy turbine engines coming near them off Cromarty Firth. Soon they saw looming out of the barley soup fog the towering grey flank of the world's biggest fighting ship, the $30,000,000 British battle cruiser Hood. What followed jolted the Highlanders out of their wits. The Hood's davits suddenly swung launches filled with marines over the side. The launches sped into shallow water. Holding their rifles high, the marines jumped into the surf, ran up the beach toward...
...Irish-born Scottish Presbyterian named Rev. Francis Makemie journeyed to the Colonies, at the earnest request of Marylanders who had not enough ministers. Presbyterianism had been recognized, under the Act of Religious Toleration, as a sect against which no derogatory remarks were to be made. Up & down the seaboard there were scattered churches of ''Dissenters." none of them orthodox. (Two are still extant, in Hempstead and Jamaica, L. I., the former being the first U. S. church to bear the name Presbyterian.) Pioneer Makemie organized in Maryland the first five truly Presbyterian churches. In Philadelphia...
Mumps broke out among Their Majesties' sturdy Highland retainers at Balmoral Castle last week, caused Queen Mary to postpone abruptly the annual Royal Scottish Servants' Ball. Knowing how dangerous mumps can be to a full grown male, Her Majesty ordered all mumpsful Scottish gillies tucked promptly into...
...years before the U.S. began to consider such proposals. In England Premier Bennett induced the author of "The MacMillan Report" to give up his summer holiday, spend two months examining Canada's banking system. For a second member of his commission Mr. Bennett got another son of a Scottish parson. Sir Charles Addis, former director of the Bank of England, former vice chairman of the Bank for International Settlements, now 71, chairman of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank, proud father of six sons and seven daughters. Fortnight ago the two Commissioners arrived in Ottawa with their ladies...
...great patron of scouting. Count Teleki was in charge of the vast Scout Camp which had its own police, hospital, specially constructed water and lighting systems and a Jamboree newspaper published in five languages. Scottish Scouts stepped out in kilts, French came in green jumpers, blue shorts and berets. Swart Egyptian Scouts wore fezzes, Irak turned out in sun helmets, Siam sent scouts in black hats displaying a tiger's head. But all proper Scouts in the Jamboree used the distinctive salute* of Lord Baden-Powell's "Boy Scouts of the World." Improper and ill at ease were...