Word: scotch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Jennie Lee, noted Scotch author and speaker, and member of the English parliament, will speak tonight on "The Decline of English Liberty" before an audience of Harvard and Radcliffe students. The meeting will be held at eight o'clock in the New Lecture Hall under the auspices of the Liberal Club, the Radcliffe International Club, and Phillips Brooks House...
...graduate of Edinburgh University who has long been active in the Scotch and British labor movement. Miss Lee is at present touring the country under the auspices of the League for Industrial Democracy. She has traveled extensively in Germany, Austria, Spain, America and Soviet Russia. During the last few months she has been in close contact with developments in Nazi Germany and has been active in aiding the victims of the Hitler regime...
...British Royal Navy few families are closer to His Majesty than the Im Thurns. When George V was "England's Sailor Prince" he tossed off many a Scotch & soda with Im Thurn cronies. Last week a Sofia dispatch passed by the Bulgarian censor stated flatly that when Rear Admiral Im Thurn landed he "had instructions to urge the military leaders in Bulgaria not to do anything that might lead to abandonment of the monarchist form of government...
Jennie Lee, the Scotch lassie who was a member of Parliament at the age of 24, and the first woman socialist to bed admitted to the English bar, will speak in the New Lecture Hall at eight o'clock on Tuesday under the auspices of the Liberal Club of the Radcliffe International Club and of Phillips Brooks House...
...Academy of Design has never produced a first-rate work of art. Neither, for that matter, has it ever produced a first-rate scandal. But last week it came dangerously close to it. Boiling with suppressed excitement, President Jonas Lie summoned newshawks to his studio, fed them cheese snaps & Scotch whiskey, and announced that for the first time in its existence the Academy had just expelled a member, "for conduct considered prejudicial to the Academy...