Word: macdonaldization
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...home (TIME. April 30). According to House of Commons rules, tampering with a witness or exerting pressure to change testimony is a High Crime and Misdemeanor. The House listened gravely to Tory Churchill's charge of bribery-by-belly. instructed its committee on privilege, including Ramsay MacDonald and Stanley Baldwin, to hear the charge...
When Baritone John Charles Thomas skipped a concert in Dallas, Tex., rather than sacrifice his fee, hot arguments arose all over the U. S. concerning an artist's unwritten obligations (TIME, Jan. 22). Texans called Thomas a poor sport, sympathized with Manager Harriet Bacon MacDonald who had been unable to meet her contract. After the Thomas episode Soprano Rosa Ponselle and Contralto Sigrid Onegin refused to go to Dallas...
Last week Mrs. MacDonald retired from the music business. She had been unable to pay Virginia Burbank, a Los Angeles contralto, railroad fare and a small fee. Like Thomas, Contralto Burbank refused to sing. Said she: "I felt that I owed it to the dignity of the music profession...
Knowing what was about to be said in the House of Commons last week Premier James Ramsay MacDonald climbed into an airplane to hide his idealistic head in the Scottish calm of Lossiemouth. When he had safely gone two of Britain's most important statesmen rose, the first to abandon China to her fate, the second to admit that Britain is preparing...
...MacDonald has included all the familiar criticisms of his own. His book will be a solace to all discontinued Republicans it is too much history however, to be entirely facile reading and it seems to be too critical to pass as exposition. "The Meuace of Recovery" will strengthen the conviction of those who oppose the New Deal. but it will make few converts among those already aligned with President Roosevelt...