Word: macdonaldization
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...Premier Asquith called one of Premier MacDonald's speeches a "rodo- montade...
...Premier MacDonald: "Tittle-tattle will play a great part in this election; and the trouble is that, being without a great and widely read press, we are going to be at the mercy of those who speak recklessly and tell what is not true...
Winston Churchill, in an attack on Premier MacDonald, demanded: "What became of all these lofty lectures from the Socialists about the unfairness and immorality of rent and interest when they say, at the first opportunity, that the Prime Minister did not hesitate to become an important shareholder in a great manufacturing concern con- nected with the food of the people...
Broadcasting. The British Broadcasting Co. put their equipment at the disposal of Premier MacDonald and ex-Premiers Baldwin and Asquith. Both Mr. McDonald and Mr. Asquith spoke into the instruments from an election platform; and the heckling and cheering was such that it made their speeches inaudible to millions of the radio-audiant. Mr. Baldwin was more successful. He hied him to the office of the Radio Co., sat him in a comfortable chair and talked quietly to millions. The keynote of his speech was an inversion of the late President Wilson's famous dictum about making the world...
Election. Premier MacDonald announced that the general election would take place on Oct. 29. In the Lords, Lord Buckmaster asked with amazement: "What is the explanation of this extraordinary haste...