Word: macdonaldization
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...Were threatened by Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald with the creation of enough Labor peers to give his Cabinet working control of their House...
...Like every other anachronistic institution in Britain," Scot MacDonald told a Labor audience at Worksop, "the House of Lords must be subject to the will, desire and mandate of the electors. We shall appoint new peers when they are necessary to do our work. The House of Lords has acted not as a national body but as a subordinate or subcommittee of Tory headquarters. The time has arrived when that has got to be stopped!" (Cheers...
...entire day's session had been set aside for Conservative attacks on the Chancellor's motion. Unexpectedly it passed unopposed. Conservatives, in a panic, had suddenly realized that if the House of Lords were permitted to veto the levy, Scot MacDonald could dissolve Parliament and campaign with an ideal Laborite platform: "Abolish the Lords! Levy on the landlords...
...Washington two years ago a Negro named Alfred Scott Aldridge shot and killed a white policeman named Harry J. MacDonald. To defend Aldridge the court appointed James Reilly, 28, who used to be a page in the U. S. Supreme Court. When Lawyer Reilly tried to ask prospective jurors if they were prejudiced against Defendant Aldridge because he was black, the trial judge summarily cut him short, declared his questions were no more proper than would be ones as to whether a talesman liked Irishmen or hated red heads. Negro Aldridge was convicted of murder...
Alternative to these measures would be a tariff for revenue, anathema to Mr. Snowden but tempting to Mr. MacDonald. "I reiterate my opposition to such proposals," cried the Chancellor, white-lipped. "They would mean relieving the well-to-do at the expense of the poor...