Word: macdonaldization
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...British Embassy and pausing about 75 minutes, part of the motorcade reformed and the Prime Minister was taken to the President. He waited in the Green Room while Ambassador Howard went in to see the President in the Blue Room. Then Sir Esme came back, fetched James Ramsay MacDonald and the historic handshake of the trip took place. Mr. MacDonald introduced his daughter, apple-cheeked Ishbel. In the Red Room, Mrs. Hoover was waiting. President Hoover took his callers to her. Mrs. Hoover, Ishbel and Lady Isabella Howard at once began to chat, joined by Statesman Stimson. President and Prime...
Before Shearer had finished his testimony, the hearing paused abruptly, "in deference to the visit of Prime Minister MacDonald." At subsequent hearings, thanks to Shearer, the Senators must receive a long parade of protesting bigwigs, probably beginning with Sir William Wiseman...
...Cambridge, Mass., Sophomore Lawrence B. Cohen Jr., president of Harvard's Socialist Club, was arrested for handing out pamphlets expressing a Socialist welcome to the Socialist Prime Minister. Excerpt: "Do not be deceived; MacDonald is not a public menace, but he is a Socialist, and Labor candidates said last spring, 'We are not concerned with patching up the rents in a bad system, but with transforming Capitalism into Socialism.' " Next day Socialist Cohen told newsgatherers he expected his father, said to be a wealthy Manhattan attorney, would disinherit him because "he has no sympathy with my statements...
...Malcolm MacDonald, second son, sailed from Vancouver to attend the Institute of Pacific Relations in Kyoto. He received radio bulletins about his triumphal father...
...British pedants applied a new name to the Messrs. Hoover and MacDonald- "thalassocrats," from Greek words meaning "sea" and ''power...