Word: macdonaldization
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...London Scots Labor Club, ex-Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald commented upon the extraordinary fact that there was not a Scot in the present Cabinet. But he consoled himself and his audience by stating that Premier Stanley Baldwin was half a Scot,* adding, however: "I doubt whether half a Scotsman is good enough to maintain the great burdens of governing this country." (Applause.) All the jokes at the expense of Scotsmen, he alleged, were invented by Scotsmen. "I once employed a parliamentary secretary," he related, "not for the purpose of giving me good advice in politics-because I get enough...
...mother of Mr. Baldwin was one of the daughters of the late Rev. George B. MacDonald-not related to ex-Premier MacDonald...
Freshman manager, Nicholas Biddle, of New York City; Assistant Freshman manager, John McAfee Preston, of Mount Kisco, N. Y.; Freshman 150-pound manager, Brian Bancroft Long, of Stamford, Conn.; Chairman of Freshman Regatta Committee, Robert William Sawyer Jr. 1E.S., of Winchester; Regatta Committee, John Bailey Fox, of Hingham; Ronald Macdonald Stearns, of New York City; George Seth Nichols, of Brookline...
...Ramsay MacDonald (Labor) was reticent. He derided the budget for taking money out of one rich man's pocket and putting it into the pocket of another. As regards the new insurance scheme, he would consider it when it was produced...
...hats. Ex-Premier Ramsay MacDonald came in a soft felt and a lounge suit, a fact which brought joy to the shires but caused a slight depression on the Exchange. Lords and ladies, Knights and gentlemen, they saw pictures that pleased them-suave specimens of super-photography in oil, executed by the hand of man, unassisted by any machine. Sir John Lavery's adept portraits of George Bernard Shaw, of Jockey Steve...