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...James Ramsay MacDonald denounced by a Scottish Independent Laborite in language so strong that it was censored out of Hansard, the official minutes of debate. With a score of poorly dressed persons in the House of Commons' gallery crying "down with the new unemployment act!" earnest, horn-spectacled Glasgow Laborite George Buchanan boomed: "The Prime Minister is a low, dirty cur who ought to be horsewhipped and slung out of public life! The Prime Minister is a mountebank! He is worse. He is a swine! I have nothing to say about the Minister of Labor...
Recognizing the Glasgow Scot's sincerity, Government M. P.'s made no effort at the time to have him called to order. Instead they tried to convince him that the National Government's new dole legislation will not reduce payments to the needy...
...John Alexander MacDonald. The Glasgow Scot who roughed out the British North America Act at the Westminster Palace Hotel in London and after it passed became Canada's first Premier...
...make it. Meanwhile the U. S. and Britain publicly embraced each other in a series of fervent hands-across-the-sea declarations by Secretary Cordell Hull, Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald, U. S. Ambassador Robert W. Bingham and Lord President of the Council Stanley Baldwin who ringingly declared at Glasgow: "As far as this country is concerned, so long as I have a responsible position in His Majesty's Government, never will I sanction the British Navy's being used in any war anywhere until I know what the United States of America is going...
...years Mrs. Ada Littlejohn has been a Gilbert & Sullivan addict. She has heard nearly every London performance, thought little of traveling to Liverpool, Manchester, Edinburgh, Glasgow to hear others. This week the D'Oyly Carte players gave their 100th Manhattan performance. For Mrs. Littlejohn, who goes five times a week, it was the 62nd. Singers in the company have come to regard the small white-haired lady as their mascot. She knows each time they make a mistake, lives with them in the Hotel Lincoln across from the theatre. For the performances she insists on buying...