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...know say that he bucked up Scot MacDonald when the Prime Minister offered to step down and persuaded Conservative Party Leader Stanley Baldwin to enter and support the present "National Government" under Mr. Macdonald. This new government presented themselves as the only group able to keep Sterling on the gold standard and avoid the inflation into which another Labor Cabinet must rush by printing enough money to keep up their Dole pace. As a horrible example of inflation. Orator James Ramsay MacDonald flourished a dog-eared envelope with the cry, "My friends, during the German inflation it cost...
...things turned out the National Government were obliged to take Sterling off gold (TIME, Sept. 28, 1931). Their next bold policy, after winning a general election in which they asked for a "free hand," was to scrap historic Free Trade and clap on protective tariffs which have given all British activities tremendous impetus. Today the Empire has happy sensations of lifting itself by its own bootstraps rapidly out of Depression...
...league has pulled this off despite a decision-making structure that seems perfectly rigged for trouble. There are 32 owners, many of whom are entrepreneurs who tend to follow the golden rule of management: he who has the gold makes the rules. Those owners are assigned to committees charged with handling everything from labor, competition and broadcasting to finding a team for Los Angeles. It's a group that includes NFL rebel Al Davis of the Oakland Raiders, financial ciphers like Malcolm Glazer of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, nouveau riche types like Daniel Snyder (Redskins) and old-school owners such...
Sunny M. Yudkoff ’06, president of Harvard Students for Israel, which sponsored the event, said after the speech that the group welcomed the chance to hear Gold speak from his personal expertise...
...Very few people have the kind of first-hand experience with the UN—its successes and failures—as Ambassador Gold does,” she said...