Word: macdonaldization
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...year showed Neville Chamberlain. Chancellor of the Exchequer, to be Britain's strong man but he was not yet on top; Laborite Ramsay MacDonald continues to head the National (Conservative coalition) ministry. Prime Minister Mac-Donald, more than any other official participant, was given credit for the outcome of the Lausanne Conference in July but there have been other conferences, will doubtless be many more...
...Learned that Lord Hailsham is the biggest talker in the House of Lords, with 265 columns of the Parliamentary Gazette to his credit for the short session from Nov. 3 to Nov. 17. In the same period Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald addressed only 83 columns of remarks to the House of Commons...
With Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald held between sheets by a heavy cold, the Chancellor had to face such dangerous ranting in the House as a speech by David Lloyd George in which the Wartime Prime Minister cried: "The Mother of Parliaments is jibbering about unimportant matters while millions of her gold is about to be taken to a foreign land. . . . Were I the head of His Majesty's Government, I would say to the Americans what France has said: 'No parley...
...knew why. Ethel Snowden, who was not only a Governor of the B. B. C. but is vice-chairman of Covent Garden Opera Syndicate as well, is of course the wife of bitter little Viscount Snowden who resigned from the National Cabinet and broke with his old friend Ramsay MacDonald rather than accept the Ottawa tariff agreements. Appointments to the B. B. C. board are made by King George on recommendations of the Prime Minister. Appointed to Lady Snowden's place was Mrs. Mary Agnes Hamilton, onetime Laborite M. P., who has published an extremely flattering biography of Ramsay...
...Lawyers- Britain's conscientious James Ramsay MacDonald and liberal, pacific Premier Edouard Herriot of France were too harassed about debts & disarmament to say a word to the League Assembly last week, did honor its opening session by their presence but left before the appeals to conscience began...