Word: macdonaldization
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...International Conference in London, called by Premiers MacDonald and Herriot in June (TIME, June30') and started in July (TIME, July 28), was at last satisfactorily concluded...
...affair. Statesmen puffed out their chests, sighed with relief; then a highly dramatic incident recharged the air with electrical emotion. The delegates had signed the final protocol of the agreement and were somewhat sheepishly regarding one another with a "that's that" expression on their faces, when Premier MacDonald started the electricity by shaking hands all round. The paw of Chancellor Marx he held long and earnestly, led its owner to Premier Herriot of France, seized the right hand of the latter and affectionately pressed it into that owned by Wilhelm Marx. German and Frenchmen's hands tightened...
...Premier MacDonald: "It is the first negotiated treaty since the War. It is the first peace treaty, because we sign it feeling that we have turned our backs on the horrors of war and on the mentality of war. . . . We have a long way to go before we reach the goal of peace and security, but we are on the right road...
...Marx: "We hope that in the future the spirit of peace and reconciliation which has inspired this Conference will remain unimpaired." Away. The Conference ended at 9 o'clock in the evening. Within a few hours, practically all the delegates had quitted the capital of the Commonwealth. Premier MacDonald left at midnight for his native Lossiemouth in Scotland. The French caught the night packet for France. The Italians were gone by the first train in the morning. The Germans were found at Harwich in the early hours of the morning boarding a boat bound for The Fatherland. London became...
...obstacle confronting Helen was not Molla Bjurstedt Mallory, from whom she won her title last year; nor Mrs. George Wightman, her Olympic doubles partner; nor Eleanor Goss nor Mrs. Marion Zinderstein Jessup, other members of the American women's team that went to Wimbledon and Colombes; nor Mayme MacDonald, national clay court champion. Experts scrutinized a lithe figure that appeared from secluded practice courts in upper New York State, recognized Miss Mary K. Browne of California, national champion...