Word: macdonaldization
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...with staves (TIME, July 7). It was in protest against such "inhumanity" that ascetic Laborite Archibald Fenner Brockway, M. P., 42, a leading publicist and orator of his party, was startling the House with his "Gandhi Cap." He demanded that without further ado his chief, Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald permit debate on India, then and there...
...Scot MacDonald refused. Mr. Brockway in his white cap persisted amid cries of "Order! Order!" When he would not come to order the Speaker "named" him. Mr. MacDonald moved his suspension and the House proceeded to vote it by strolling off into the division lobbies. It was then that a supreme rupture of precedent occurred, electrifying and dumfounding every Briton present...
Only the Labor press was jubilant, hailed James Ramsay MacDonald as he seemed to advance upon the platform of broad and sympathetic dealings with subject peoples which he laid down at Geneva last fall (TIME, Sept. 9, et seq.). Badly perplexed, for he has but the slenderest majority in Parliament, Mr. MacDonald said to a cheering Labor audience : "The men [Indians] with whom we wish to cooperate have had to be arrested for actions which, if they themselves had been responsible for a purely Indian government and had been faced with conditions such as those they have created recently, would...
...first round MacDonald Smith, who tied for first in the Open the year (1910) that Bobby Jones was nine years old, tied for the lead with one-eyed Tommy Armour, famed for his iron shots and erratic putting, who had 70. Johnny Farrell, 1928 Open champion, had an eight on the first hole, a two on the third, a six on the fourth, and then made three birdies in succession to keep in the running. Jones had 71, Walter Hagen, back from a tour of Japan and needing practice, had 72 and so did blond, loose-jointed Horton Smith...
...MacDonald Smith was burning up the course back of Jones. At the eleventh tee he had made up four of the seven strokes he had been behind at lunch. After Jones's great last putt, Smith needed two birdies and six pars to tie and he fell only two shots short of doing...