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...summary: HARVARD FITCHBURG England, g. g., Spring Wemple (captain), r.f.b. l.f.b., Haggerty Gummere, l.f.b. r.f.b., Teittinen Morrill, Kingsley, r.h.b. l.h.b., Robertson Dorman, c.h.b. c.h.b., Hammond Vincent, l.h.b. r.h.b., Riley, MacDonald Grover, Willetts, r.o.f. l.o.f., Naumnik, Stencivach Clos, r.i.f. l.i.f., Johnson Manheimer, c. c., Steeves Stork, l.i.f. r.i.f., Southworth Robbins, Manheimer, l.o.f. r.o.f., Ponte...
...Labour party, to universal strike in the event of war, will soon be steered by him into Parliament. This will mark the first real test of Labour's genuineness, and its success would imply victory, however belated, of one of the great principles of its patron saints. Ramsay MacDonald, professional politician that he is, always shied away when Labour's concretion was mentioned; the trade union heads themselves were weakly unresolved; Bernard Shaw was unable, and Sidney Webb unwilling to accomplish it. The forces of inertia with in the party and the forces of opposition without may stay Sir Charles...
...Davis busied himself in London and in Paris last week with clearing up the "misunderstandings" created when the President, as Europeans think, "wrecked the World Economic Conference" by refusing to stabilize the dollar (TIME, July 10 et seq.). In London Mr. Davis called on Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald who was still snorting over what he considered the President's omission to act in currency matters along the line privately agreed upon when Scot MacDonald visited the White House (TIME, May 8). If the Geneva Disarmament Conference is to make progress Mr. MacDonald must feel confident that this time...
...director. Rich Publisher Elias, no newsman, is one of the ablest businessmen on Fleet Street. He put John Bull on its feet following the downfall of its former publisher, the late, notorious Horatio Bottomley. Ambitious, he openly seeks a title, and he will get none so long as Scot MacDonald is Prime Minister. The Prime Minister has never forgiven him for publishing in John Bull a facsimile of MacDonald's birth certificate, showing him to be illegitimate...
Publisher Elias and Editor Dunbar fashioned a newspaper precisely to the taste of MacDonald, Philip Snowden and countless middle-readers like them. Moreover, they were quick to learn the tricks of circulation come-ons such as lotteries, crossword puzzle contests with cash prizes. In one year the Laborite Herald jumped from 350,000 to over a million. Last year, it passed the News-Chronicle with more than 1,400,000. The battle was so expensive to all concerned that the Newspaper Proprietors Association called a truce. Free gifts were outlawed. Expenditures on canvassing were limited. Fleet Street settled down...