Word: macdonaldization
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...Woods," was the new viscount's village birthplace. Because of his infirmities, stooped Viscount Snowden did not kneel to the Lord Chancellor as custom prescribes. Ostentatiously Lord Snowden's former friends in the present Labor Party boycotted his swearing in. But present were Scot MacDonald, most of the Cabinet and the new peer's longtime political enemy Winston Church ill, with whom he used to alternate as Chancellor of the Exchequer...
Presidents pair only with Premiers. Foreign Ministers, one rung down the diplomatic ladder, pair off with Secretaries of State. When Britain's MacDonald and France's Laval visited the White House, it was President Hoover who joined each in a public statement of thing accomplished. Last week it was Secretary of State Stimson's part to collaborate with Dino Grandi in the above summary of the Italian Foreign Minister's three-day round of Capital conversations...
Liberal Runciman's amazing about-face resulted from the fact that Free Trader James Ramsay MacDonald now heads a National Government supported by the largest Tory majority in British history (TIME, Nov. 9). Since the War tariffs have again become a leading Tory policy. Against his will, Mr. MacDonald was forced to appoint as Chancellor of the Exchequer famed Tariff Champion Neville Chamberlain. Next April or sooner, Chancellor Chamberlain will bring in an ironclad British Tariff Act, sure to pass. But emergency tariff measures are in the hands of Britain's obscurest cabinet ministry, the Board of Trade...
Kicking was done by the Public Assistance Office in each county. Such offices used to administer only poor law relief. They were appointed local Dole dispute referees when it was "tightened up" as one of the first acts of the National Government (TIME, Sept. 21). Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald, whose main election appeal was to women, arranged that the new Dole screw should not turn against them until last week...
...Ishbel MacDonald...