Word: macdonaldization
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...obscure happening, ignored by headline writers 22 months ago, kicked open the throttle of a roaring train of events that has carried Rt. Hon. Arthur Neville Chamberlain to first political rank in Great Britain and marked him as Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald's probable successor. Last week tall, husky-voiced, smoldering-eyed Chancellor Chamberlain of Britain's Exchequer read to a hushed House of Commons the Empire's first sky-high-tariff budget. That speech was sufficiently historic. The obscure happening 22 months ago was Mr. Chamberlain's discreet success in getting himself appointed chairman of the Conservative Party...
Below on the oblong floor of the House, which is a great Gothic box, crisp English primroses bloomed in the buttonholes of scores of M. P.s, for Budget Day had happened to fall on "Primrose Day."** On the Government front bench sat snowy-crested Scot MacDonald between the Empire's two biggest bumblers, Stanley Baldwin, Lord President of the Council, and James Henry ("Jim") Thomas, Secretary of State for the Dominions. Exactly at 3:30 p. m. Chancellor Chamberlain rose, ruffled his notes, took a stiff stance beside the red leather despatch box and, before he began to make...
...Scot MacDonald, who had used these very words to exhort the Conference to action, had nothing to say to the Press, looked haggard...
Europe v. U. S.? Not the Danube Conference but informal talks about Reparations and War Debts among Host MacDonald and his Great Power guests were chiefly vital last week to U. S. citizens. Specifically, were the Allies and Germany groping toward a common basis from which Debtor Europe may defy Creditor America at the Lausanne Conference in June? Omens of the week...
Famous Scientist Receives Message from Mars. Less than 1/2% of the students said they would give James Ramsay MacDonald's resignation first place, over 89% plumped for Edward of Wales's engagement and the rest scattered-indicating however that they would place Abolition of the League ahead of Collapse of Germany...