Word: macdonaldization
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...Lord President of the Council, Stanley Baldwin, led the House in orderly procession to sign the Roll (equivalent to swearing in). By the time 615 autographs had been affixed, the House was ready to adjourn. Parliament came to an abrupt standstill for several days while Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald put finishing touches to his revised National Government and wrote the Speech from the Throne later delivered by George...
Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury, Ramsay MacDonald, National Laborite...
...grasped his sceptre and seated himself on Brit ain's Throne in the House of Lords. Standing in a subway crush behind the bar of the House of Lords, eager M. P.'s squashed each other in their efforts to hear His Majesty read a speech written by Scot MacDonald: "My Lords, Mem bers of the House of Commons. . . . My Government is giving particularly close attention to . . . the approaching Disarmament Conference...
...before he was Chancellor of the Exchequer but so briefly that he never brought in a budget (TIME, April 13). Recently, as Conservative campaign strategist, he rolled up the greatest party ma- jority in British history, won his right to demand the Exchequer as his Cabinet plum. Prime Minister MacDonald, a life-long free trader, knows that Chancellor Chamberlain will buckle a tariff belt of some sort around Mother Britain, cannot stop this unwelcome belting...
...Herbert Samuel, who led an equally large bloc of Liberals to Scot MacDonald, was rewarded last week with the Home Office. His Liberal bloc met in caucus during the week, elected him leader of what hereafter will be the Liberal Party. David Lloyd George, from whom all but four Liberal M. P.'s? have bolted, sourly announced on the eve of Leader Sir Herbert's election that he, Mr. Lloyd George, was "not a candidate...