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Back at the White House, tea became a New Deal question bee. Secretaries Hopkins, Wallace and Perkins were there; Robert Fechner (who promised the King a treatise on CCC), FHA's Stewart McDonald (who got on with the Queen immediately after telling her his family came from Skye). A. F. of L.'s William Green went (but C. I. O.'s John Lewis declined). Everyone was impressed by both the King's and the Queen's interest in U. S. housing. Mrs. Roosevelt wrote in her column: "It was interesting to me to find...
...died in a cheap hotel room paid for by his wife. Hetty Green raised a son and daughter, multiplied her nine million into 67, and in her last days was a strange old body in odd cloaks and shawls who lived in cheap flats with a Skye terrier named Dewey. To her son, Ned, she once gave a package of cancelled insurance policies, told him they were bonds and had him carry them to San Francisco to make sure he was efficient and trustworthy. Assured, she later gave him a railroad in Texas where, more neighborly but no less idiosyncratic...
...placed in strong wooden boxes were thrown from the sheer cliffs. The prevailing westerly winds generally carried these to the Hebrides or the mainland of Scotland in one week. For hundreds of years St. Kilda has belonged to the MacLeods, who, living on the nearly as rigorous Isle of Skye, have seen nothing untoward in life on St. Kilda (Norman Magnus, present MacLeod of MacLeod, is hale and hearty at 91). The Marquess of Ailsa* bought St. Kilda last year, immediately decided to move the population to Ayrshire where he owns 76,000 acres. Ayrshire's temperature seldom rises...
There developed in Scotland a warlike form of music called in Gaelic Piobaireachd in English, pibroch. It became the national classical music and had many variations. These were taught on the Island of Skye by one John M'Crummen, professor at the Skye Bagpipe-College. His pupils, illiterate Highland lads, could not read music so were taught verbal note-equivalents, thus...
...York dog show the prize for Skye terriers was awarded to Geo. Walton's Pepper, Boston...