Word: ishbel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Snowden was taken to mean not that the Prime Minister lacked defenders, but that silence was the best means of glossing over his latest breakdown, which leaves the Lord Privy Seal and Conservative Party Leader Mr. Stanley Baldwin as the Empire's acting Premier (TIME, July 2). With Miss Ishbel MacDonald, faithful daughter and housekeeper, the Prime Minister sails this week aboard the Duchess of Richmond from Liverpool to vacation in Canada. According to Dr. L. A. Swann, a London eye specialist attending the American Optometric congress in Toronto last week, "Degeneration of the eye has set in. Both...
Apple-cheeked and exemplary though she is, Miss Ishbel MacDonald, daughter of the Prime Minister, found herself rejected by the Labor Party when the time came last week for her to seek re-election as a member of London's charity-supervising County Council...
...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...
...limousine. Mrs. Roosevelt was there too and Daughter Anna Roosevelt Dall and Major, the police dog, and Meggie, the Scotch terrier. "I'm awfully glad to see you here," cried the President as he squeezed the Prime Minister's hand. He greeted Miss MacDonald as "Miss Ishbel." All moved inside the White House to have tea after the most friendly and informal meeting between heads of States ever witnessed by the Washington correspondents...
That evening after dinner while Mrs. Roosevelt and Daughter Ishbel were off at a dog show, the President and the Prime Minister settled in their chairs by an open fire in the upstairs Oval Room. Mr. MacDonald wanted to talk about War debts. Mr. Roosevelt wanted to talk about stabilizing the dollar and the pound. They had hardly felt out each other's mind and method before it was bedtime. The Prime Minister slept in what used to be Lincoln's Study. He recalled that when he was last at the White House it had been President Hoover...