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...once the Laborites launched an attack upon the Government's policy of protecting British oil interests and native Christians in the Vilayet of Mosul at the expense of the British taxpayer; and for a while the debate was enlivened by Laborite obstructionist tactics. Fiery Scotch Laborite Neil Maclean at one time attempted to "rise to a point of order" without observing the technical formality of putting on his hat and sitting down, which must legally accompany such parliamentary "rising." Having no hat within reach Mr. Maclean was nonplused until a fellow member hastily improvised a paper cockade...
...organized a company to buy liquor and ship it-not to U. S. shores but as close thereto as the twelve-mile limit allowed. The idea was not, so the Baronet asserted, to act as a bootlegger. Only it so happened that a craft lying off shore laden with Scotch and other forbidden liquors would soon find buyers swarming towards it. Once his merchandise was sold-for cash-Sir Broderick would cease to be interested in its further history. Perhaps it entered the U. S. Perhaps not. He really could not say. But he sent out circulars inviting the public...
...Forbes, onetime Scotch printers devil, now editor of the financial bi-weekly which bears his name, penned many a hard word anent the late tobacco millionaire, James B. Duke, and published them in his latest issue a fortnight...
...With Chancellor Luther and Foreign Minister Stresemann in the Distinguished Visitors' Gallery of the House of Commons, noted Scotch Laborite Arthur Henderson* created a sensation by demanding to be told once and for all whether the dead bodies of German soldiers were ever "boiled down" by their comrades in "corpse factories" during the War, or whether the story (TIME, Nov. 2) was faked British propaganda, as was recently hinted in Manhattan by General Charteris (head of the British Army Intelligence Service during...
This somewhat "explanatory" attitude on the part of the Court was viewed generally as an attempt to scotch any cry of "Martyrs!" in behalf of the accused. And it was noted as significant that all the sentences were "in the second degree" (i. e., "without hard labor...