Word: macdonaldization
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...Needless to recall 5,000,000 women were enfranchised (TIME, Aug. 13, 1928) in time for the last British General Election (TIME, June 10), but they bit the hand of the party that gave them the vote-Conservatives helped measurably to put in power Laborite James Ramsay MacDonald...
...kind was a map of England and Wales?such a map as no living man could make of the U. S., for the necessary information does not exist. Entitled lugubriously WHERE THE SHADOW FALLS: Unemployment At A Glance, the map shows from official statistics of the Ramsay MacDonald Labor Government exactly the percentage of unemployment in each and every British county, not forgetting "Salop" the concise if nonsensical abbreviation for "Shropshire...
...International as the avatar of wickedness, an octopus projecting its tentacles from Russia into the politics of other countries (TIME, Feb. 3). Wrathfully last week reactionary Paris news organs reminded the world that there is also a Second or Socialist International of which a leading member is James Ramsay MacDonald...
...charge was hurled?with the typical recklessness of the Paris pamphleteer?that the fall last fortnight of the moderate French Cabinet of André Tardieu was the result of an international Socialist "plot." The British Socialists and their leader Scot MacDonald were imagined to have feared that M. Tardieu with his stiff naval demands (TIME, Feb. 24) might wreck the London Conference. It was represented that Socialist MacDonald, through the Second International, secured the aid of Socialist groups in France, and the assistance of French Foreign Minister Aristide Briand, with the result that the Tardieu Cabinet was upset...
...MacDonald-Briand "plot" seemed highly improbable, nevertheless nearly everyone in Paris did believe that sly old B'rer Briand was the man who set afoot a national (not international) intrigue among the French Left Parties which resulted in the Cabinet's fall...