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...Boston, who came for a stay of several weeks; Commander Francesco de Pinedo, Italian air ace, to whom Mr. Coolidge expressed his regrets over the recent burning of Signer de Pinedo's plane (TIME, April 18); J. Ramsay Macdonald, onetime British premier, who was accompanied by his daughter Ishbel, (see p. 11).¶ On the presidential desk was placed a yellow glass-covered urn. Within, like cubes of sugar, lay some salts presented to the President by a scientist. Should a bad odor invade the presidential office, the top of the urn can be removed. The discreet salts slay...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Coolidge Week: May 2, 1927 | 5/2/1927 | See Source »

...crowd of friends, most of them potent Laborites, stood tip-toe on the platform to shout Godspeed. Ramsay Macdonald's head- a tousled mop of silver-bobbed in friendly fashion from the door of his compartment. Beside him, flushed and laughing, stood apple-cheeked Ishbel Macdonald, his wholesome daughter. "Ishbel," the onetime Premier had chuckled to newsgatherers, "Ishbel has always been keen to visit the United States. She wants to motor out to Mount Vernon when we get to Washington because she is greatly interested in the first American President, George Washington. I am sure she will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Ramsay Sails | 4/18/1927 | See Source »

Many whose hearts were not particularly touched by Ishbel Macdonald's praiseworthy interest in George Washington, prepared to greet her father as one of the few Great Men of today. Not the least of his achievements was to build up the potent British Labor party out of thousands of unionized workers whom he taught to realize that what they could not win by strikes and violence they might gain in the halls of Parliament...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Ramsay Sails | 4/18/1927 | See Source »

...Ishbel Marchioness of Aberdeen and Temair. One of the noted philanthropists of Great Britain, Lady Aberdeen has shared her husband's pleasant duties as Governor General of Canada and his exacting labors as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. He is senior peer of Scotland. She, Ishbel Maria Majoribanks Gordon, is the mother of two sons and one daughter. Her life-has been spent in good works, notably in services for Canadian women. She belongs to many clubs, such as the Onward and Upward Association, the National Health Association of Ireland, Lady Aberdeen has been President of the International Council...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Meeting | 5/11/1925 | See Source »

...Miss Ishbel MacDonald, who so excellently acted as hostess at No. 10 Downing Street for her father during his tenure of the Premiership, commenced, last week, to function as an editress. The periodical for which she is responsible is a weekly, The Optimist, called in a subtitle The National Organ of the Cheerful Giver. It is being run in the interest of the Margaret MacDonald* and Mary Middleton Baby Clinic. The price is one penny (Id) which is written in this case Id(onation)-one donation. In the first issue, Miss Ishbel wrote a leading article about the baby clinic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Editress | 2/16/1925 | See Source »

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