Word: macdonaldization
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...Britain, beside trade disputes, was Prohibition and its enforcement on the high seas, but Sir Esme on his departure insisted that this question never created "tension" between the two countries. His final achievement had been in setting the stage for the visit of Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald to the U. S. last year...
...election campaign speeches, one of the innovations promised by Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald in the name of the Labor Party was an "Economic General Staff" of financiers, economists to assist in the reorganization of British industry. Last week the names of 15 members of the E. G. S., officially renamed "Economic Advisory Council," were announced. Potent members...
Eight months ago, Ramsay MacDonald with a woefully weak government behind him became Prime Minister of Great Britain. Concentrating at once on his foreign policy a series of successful foreign conferences (the Young Plan, The Hague, the visit to Washington) improved British prestige abroad, immeasurably increased his own position at home...
Three months ago kinetic André Tardieu, also with a woefully weak government* became Prime Minister of France. The MacDonald strategy seemed to him excellent, he too concentrated on foreign affairs. Hectically he dashed back and forth to Geneva, to The Hague, to London but though he nearly wrecked the Naval Conference last week in his desire to show the world the might of France, results at home were less satisfactory. Last week ill with laryngitis, he returned to Paris in an attempt to cope with the rising opposition of radicals, socialists...
...Alister MacDonald, elder son of British Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald, junketing in the U. S., met Herbert Hoover Jr., radio chief of Western Air Express, the President's elder son, at dinner in Pasadena, Calif. They talked about aviation...