Word: macdonaldization
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...words, though blatant, were important, and vitally significant. They meant that the British Conservative Party expects to win again by telling John Bull and his women that the Labor Party (Socialist) is a pack of "Reds." In 1924 the "Red" stigma was fastened upon Labor Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald, when the Conservatives released the notorious "Zinoviev Letter" on election eve. The "Letter" purported to show that Labor Leaders were receiving pay and orders from "Moscow." Today, after four years of pointing at the Red Bogey Man, the Conservatives and "Stability" Baldwin apparently believe that they can strike...
...Between the two major parties: Laborite and Conservative. The Liberals held just such a balance in 1924 and used their leverage to assist into office the first and only British Labor Cabinet, namely that of Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald...
From Row Q (seventeenth row, rise please) there was one consoling feature. The leading lady, one Jeanette Macdonald, seemed remarkably good to look upon. Of course the seventeenth row has certain disadvantages for such observation, but she really was quite good. Only one other feature can possibly be mentioned within a city block of the word "good" and that is a group of what are billed as Chester Hale Girls. They do a few very well executed dances...
Lord Melchett was raised to the peerage last May as a recognition of his contributions to British industry. Sir Alfred was the Minister of Health in the MacDonald Labor ministry and is a fellow of the Royal Society. He is the President of the giant corporation known as the Imperial Chemical Industries. In addition to speaking at Harvard, he will talk to the Boston Chamber of Commerce, and will be entertained at a private affair in his honor, during his stay in Boston and Cambridge...
Coincident with the return to London of James Ramsay MacDonald, Leader of the Labor Party, a manifesto was issued, last week, declaring that the Party will champion "reform of the Bank of England" as a leading issue in the 1929 election. The "reform" envisions Labor representation on the Bank of England's omnipotent Governing Board...