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...reported "in poor repair, crowded, unsanitary and not fire proof." Children were thrown into the guard house for "possessing a 2? stamp . . . talking in mess line . . . concealing an apple in bunk . . . kicking a refuse can . . . stealing five eggs." To the Commission's charge of poor equipment Warden Albert MacDonald of the reformatory pleaded "I'm guilty, but not to blame." But vigorously did he deny that his discipline was too severe. Said he: "An aged woman from California [Dr. Van Waters is 43] was sent here to make the investigation. She was of the sob sister brigade...
Prime tenet of Sir Oswald's small but diligent New Party is opposition to the Labor Government's handling of the unemployment situation. Almost as soon as he found a seat he made a barking speech against Scot MacDonald's bill for amending the unemployment insurance laws, his first since he resigned from the Labor Party (TIME, March 9). Presently he was joined by the other three members of his Party in the House: his beauteous wife Lady Cynthia, Evelyn John St. Loe Strachey and William Edward David Allen...
When he has no more important thing to do. Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald burbles in pleasant, heart-warming fashion...
...Honorable Member continued to ask Justice. This, in the circumstances, was intolerable. A fellow Scot, the Prime Minister, leaped up and moved John McGovern be suspended. "That's about all you can do nowadays!" jeered Scot McGovern at Scot Ramsay MacDonald. By a count of 315 to 16 the House promptly voted suspension of John McGovern, but John still stood his ground. "Wring his neck!" advised a Conservative...
Aflutter last week was Miss Muriel Lester of Kingsley Hall Settlement, Bow, who had just received a letter from her good friend Mahatma Gandhi that if & when he goes to London to confer with Prime Minister MacDonald he does not want to stay at Hampstead's Indian Hostel as expected, but at her settlement house. Reporters found Kingsley Hall very clean and neat, smelling slightly of disinfectant. It has a large flat roof from which St. Gandhi may survey the squalid East End, and a large bronze bell, presented by white-whiskered First Commissioner of Works George Lansbury...