Word: macdonaldization
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...pounds Sterling, Bank of England notes!" cried Mr. MacDonald. "You'll take them, I know! Here are three notes, each...
...official took the notes. Candidate MacDonald seemed to feel that he had proved something, something having to do with the fact that in his Prime Ministry the pound was forced off gold (TIME, Sept. 28). Fighting later in Seaham, his constituency, Candidate MacDonald faced crowds of chalky-faced, peak-nosed miners, some of whom sang insultingly...
Once, fiercely booed for 15 minutes, Mr. MacDonald left a Seaham platform without speaking while hundreds chorused, "You're a liar!" But more often Mac-Donald "platform magic" worked. The dignified, silver-haired Prime Minister won votes and wrung hearts by solemn sob-stuff. He dragged in his long dead wife: "In the old days, the first days, my wife and I had to pay for the postage of the Labor Party! We bought out of our own pockets-my wife and I-the very notepaper on which Labor's work was done. . . . Labor is in my blood...
...banks have crashed!" Most of these U. S. catastrophes Free Trader Lloyd George blamed on the U. S. Republican tariff, exhorted Britons to vote Free Trade (i. e. for the small wing of the Liberal Party still led by Mr. Lloyd George, other Liberals having rallied to support the MacDonald "National Government...
...Bitterest in the fight was Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Snowden who has "retired from the House of Commons," was not campaigning last week, but poured the bile and venom of his scorn gratuitously on the head of his former friend & colleague Arthur Henderson, late Foreign Secretary in the MacDonald Cabinet, now leader of the Labor Party...