Word: macdonaldization
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...Oswald. Never was leadership more bankrupt than last week at Llandudno. In blind resentment the Conference refused to re-elect to the party Executive Committee of Twelve famed James Henry ("Jim") Thomas, M.P., the jovial Laborite whom Scot MacDonald first made Lord Privy Seal charged with combatting unemployment (TIME, June 17, 1929 et seq.), and when he failed at that gave him his present post, Minister of Dominions...
...Oswald as a sincere, hardworking convert to Socialism. He was assigned last year to help Jim Thomas fight unemployment. He resigned in protest at the latter's happy-go-lucky methods, drafted a plan of his own, the secret Mosley Memorandum (TIME, June 2) which was submitted to Scot MacDonald but never published...
Inconsistent Ramsay. The Prime Minister dashed from the Imperial Conference at London to speak at Llandudno last week, won a vote of confidence on government policy. His speech was amazing. In some passages Mr. MacDonald flayed the very notion of putting a tariff wall around the Empire, called all tariffs "quack remedies"; but soon he was threatening reprisals?apparently tariff reprisals ?against nations which should raise their tariffs against Empire goods...
Thus testified fiery little David Lloyd George (Liberal) last week and was stoutly backed up by Stanley Baldwin (Conservative). Soon James Ramsay MacDonald (Laborite) made this judgment of two former Prime Ministers unanimous. "Living as I must at No. 10 Downing St.," he said, "I have to keep four servants more than if I lived in my own home at Hampstead...
...member of the Royal Commission now examining this phase of the budget proved unsympathetic. "If what you say is so, Sir," he shot back, "may I ask if you could not resume your residence at Hampstead?" Scot MacDonald replied unruffled: "The pressure of affairs of state compels the Prime Minister to live at No. 10.* I am up at 6:30 and rarely go to bed before 10. At 9 in the morning I work with the secretaries' boxes [impressive red morocco affairs: the British statesman's equivalent for a briefcase] and despatches. Then there are all sorts...