Word: macdonaldization
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What would Mr. Baldwin say? The moment had come, last week, for which the leader of Britain's Conservative Party has waited months. The MacDonald Labor Cabinet had just been impressively defeated in the House of Commons by a vote of 282 to 249. Looking across at the Government Bench, Conservative Baldwin could see that the color had left Scot MacDonald's cheeks. He was ashen pale. With what words would Mr. Baldwin attempt, as leader of the Opposition, to force the Prime Minister to resign...
...Scot MacDonald cleared his dry throat. "Really, I am rather surprised," he said, "but since no vital principle was involved [in the vote] the Government will proceed" (i. e. would not resign...
...issue on which the Cabinet was defeated last week was an amendment to the school attendance bill. Twenty-six Laborites bolted their party to vote for it. With this gaping split in his ranks Scot MacDonald is clinging by his fingertips to the crackling rim of Doom...
...Gandhites continued to demonstrate for independence and had to be locked up again. In Calcutta, simultaneously, Nationalist S. Chandra Bose was let out of jail. He promptly resumed his Nationalist oratory, was locked up again by policemen who doubtless felt foolish. In London, Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald all but sobbed with emotion in a typical appeal to the House of Commons as debate on the Round Table Conference work began: "If you are prepared to march our soldiers from the Himalayas to Cape Comorin, if you are prepared to stage-for the world to behold-the failure...
Unimpressed, Scot MacDonald wrote to Sir Hilton last week that he will take no action, declared...