Word: macdonald
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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London. It appeared certain last week that Britain and not the U. S. will call the Five Power Naval Conference scheduled for next January at which the tentative naval agreements thus far reached by President Hoover and British Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald will be laid before France, Italy and Japan. Tall, cheerful Scot MacDonald put in the week quietly preparing for the good-will visit to Washington which he will make next week to smooth the way for the Five Power Conference. With his apple-cheeked daughter Ishbel he motored out from London to Sandringham "by royal command...
...Gypsy Moth plane with dual controls. Slow and safe, the ship has a cruising speed of but 90 m. p. h., can land on much smaller fields than the Royal Air Force still planes used by heretofore Flying P.' used ie by H. R. Minister H. James and Ramsay MacDonald. On his first flight in the Moth last week, dutiful Scion Wales was piloted to Sandringham to visit his parents, was deposited smartly on their lawn. Later, by handling one of the ship's dual controls, he will learn to fly it himself, will qualify for a regular pilot...
...visit of Premier Ramsay MacDonald to the United States to meet President Hoover in a conference on naval limitation is significant, showing as it does, the importance being attached by statesmen to a reduction of the machinery of modern warfare. Is it not equally important, however, that the feeling of the intelligent citizenry of the world toward war be influenced and moderated just as much as the actual physical armaments of the nation...
...John and Florence wed in simple ceremony"..."Anne Lindbergh wins affection of all by democratic sympathy"..."Hoovers pass quiet week-end with guests at Virginia camp"..."Prime Minister MacDonald and daughter dressed in height of simplicity"..."Jimmie Walker has forty suits...
...good friend of long suffering "Conchies" is the present Labor Government. Prime Minister MacDonald himself objected long and violently to the War. Other onetime "Conchies" throng Labor's councils. Last week Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Snowden signed an order...