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...venerable Gloucester, assembled a conference of the Independent Labor Party, which is the mother of the Parliamentary Labor Party headed by ex-Premier Ramsay MacDonald...
...Party will again score a heavy election victory, debate on whether the Party should or should not accept office with a minority in the House of Commons (as was the case with the last Government) assumed a seriousness out of proportion to the imminence of the subject. Ex-Premier MacDonald reserved his judgment. The extremist, John Wheatley, was of the opinion that the Government should not accept office except with an absolute majority of the House...
...peers, 8 were country gentlemen or members of well-connected families, 5 came from the so-called middleclass: Addington, son of a doctor; Disraeli, grandson of a merchant; Gladstone, son of a shipowner; Asquith, son of a manufacturer; George, son of an itinerant teacher. The remaining one, Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, was born in the humblest circumstances, his relatives being fishers and farm hands...
...chief parts are in the hands of very competent and way-wise actors: F. M. Eaton '27, as the leading man, and therefore the Plot, is personable and easy: J. C. MacDonald '26, is an agreeable lepidopterist (a lepidopterist just makes the glasses he doesn't test your eyes: not allowed to by law, or some-thing); J. H. Wright '25, is apparently a butler, but when he lays hold of an ukulele and sings with Mr. Wilson, or when he does a neat step-dance with Mr. Wilson, J. H. Wright '27 is as admirable as Crichton...
...Pinehurst, N. C, MacDonald Smith, professional of Great Neck, L. I., defeated Walter Hagen (U. S. National Open Champion, 1914, 1919; British Open Champion, 1922, 1924) for the North and South Champion- ship. His score for the 72 holes was 28−7 under par. At Colorado Springs, one James Gullane drove a golf ball 470 yards, claimed a world's record...