Word: macdonaldization
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Because obsolete boilers were responsible for the failure of several battle- ships to meet the test of the recent naval maneuvers in the Caribbean Sea, (TIME, Jan. 28), it was proposed to install oil-burning boilers in the Florida, Utah, Arkansas, Wyoming, New York, Texas. Whereupon Premier MacDonald declared in the British House of Commons that this action would be a violation of the naval limitation treaty. After taking counsel of the Department of State, Representative Butler, Chairman of the House Committee on Naval Affairs, reported last week a vigorous Naval Constitution Bill, appropriating $110,560,000. The bill calls...
...Premier MacDonald accepted the plan as "an indivisible whole." The stressing of these words was taken as a reminder to France that Britain will not countenance any move which permits the retention of the Ruhr and that she will not be a party to any modifications aimed at imposing a scale of punishments upon Germany in case of default before she actually defaults...
...since the Englishman in politics is admittedly empirical the immediate fate of the Labor Ministry doubtless rests upon the results of its present program. By initiating a strange foreign policy that has been characteristic recent governments Premier MacDonald has appeased at British longing which Mr. Golding declares has gone unsatisfied since the early nineteenth century. There remains the vexing problem of unemployment. If any thing is likely to wreck the immediate political fortunes of the present ministry it will be popular impatience with an unavoidable slowness in reshaping the economic forces now depressing English industry...
...shunned by society. When socialism can count among its adherents such figures as Anatole France, H. G. Wells, . B. Shaw and d'Annunzio, English people of all parties realize that a Labor Government is not going to mean the collapse of all England, and they whish Mr. MacDonald luck in his effort to do a good job, no matter how skeptical they may be of his success...
...cabinet, Labor has one of the greatest of living scholars and statesmen. The Minister for Foreign Affairs was a page at the court of Queen Victoria, and the Government has a cabinet at present which has only once been equalled and never surpassed in the last 50 years. Mr. MacDonald is himself trying to life the peace," he concluded, "as Mr. Wilson lifted the war, from the plane of sordid materialism to that of inspired idealism...