Word: macdonaldization
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...cables. They reminded Lord Willingdon that Mahatma Gandhi's arrest would mean a trade loss of millions of dollars to the Empire, since it would unquestionably provoke a fresh Indian boycott of British goods. Even the Leader of His Majesty's Loyal Opposition, George Lansbury, successor to James Ramsay MacDonald as Parliamentary Leader of the Labor Party, cabled from London to the Viceroy: "Many friends are profoundly disturbed by your refusal to discuss the working of the ordinances with Gandhi . . . should be treated as one whose advice and goodwill on all matters should be considered...
...usual there were some strange recipients of New Year's honors. Pipe Major John MacDonald was given the Order of the British Empire for his excellent bagpiping. Salote. Queen of the Tonga or Friendly Islands, was made a Dame Commander of the same order. Queen Salote is over six feet tall, broad in proportion and very fond of broiled fish...
Last week Prime Minister MacDonald tried to weasel out of aiding Cunard. "The trouble is not to get the Cunarder built," he declared, "but to get the com-pany to believe that when she is built she can be run with some chance of paying her way. There would be no difficulty in getting money for the building if there were any prospect of getting the interest repaid and the loans refunded...
...been a lean year for everyone," said Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald with suppressed emotion. Then, faced by the conference that is to meet Jan. 18 to do something about Reparations (see p. 7), he burst out, "For God's sake let us meet...
...Baltimore home, with a broken foot suffered when he tripped on a rug; Lieut.-Commander George Ottilie Noville, companion of Admiral Byrd on his North Pole and transatlantic nights, in Manhattan, of alcoholism and grave injuries suffered when he stepped in the path of a taxicab; Sheila MacDonald, youngest daughter of Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald, following an operation on her foot; Jane Addams, famed social worker, in Chicago, of bronchitis; Film Actress Ann Harding, in Jacksonville, Fla., of a dislocated shoulder caused she knew...