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...Daughter Ishbel well knows, Father Ramsay became "the Judas of the Labor Party" when King George induced him to act as the figurehead Prime Minister of the present National Government. Laborites in his own home constituency of Seaham jeered Scot MacDonald fortnight ago and police reserves had to be called out to protect...
...such feats of homely expression the Prime Minister excels but when he tries to talk in figures he shows himself a figurehead indeed. Seemingly unconscious that Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain-the real power in the British Cabinet today-is violently opposed to pound-dollar stabilization at the present $5 figure and is holding out for a $4 pound, Mr. MacDonald launched at Leeds last week into an astonishing monetary speech...
This paper and its successor, the Aurora, became chief begetters of what Author Faÿ calls "the second American Revolution . . . that broke Federalism and the English alliance." After the Revolutionary War the Federalists, with Washington as their dignified figurehead, grew cooler & cooler to France, wanted a treaty with England. They overrode Ambassador Genet's dangerous popularity with the U. S. crowd, forced his retirement. But when John Jay brought back from England his famed pusillanimous treaty, even Washington kept the text dark till he could be sure of getting it through Congress. Benny Bache spilled the beans...
...Student Council, then, far from being an active and powerful weapon of the student body, has degenerated into little more than a figurehead, which many know only through hearsay. One reason for this is to be found in the list of members. These individuals are selected, partly by vote of the undergraduates, and partly through appointment by the existing body. It is inevitable that those elected by the students be largely athletes; their names are most in the public eye, and they are, in general, the only ones about whom anything is known. The appointments, however, can be and should...
...began months of confusing, exhausting work for Munck as Rothstein's errand boy while the great buildings went up. With the Lyceum ready to function Munck thought he could at last start doing a job he was fitted for, but he soon found he was nothing but a figurehead...