Word: macdonald
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Wednesday. Following Stanley Baldwin's retirement. Ramsay James MacDonald went to Windsor, umbrella in hand, obedient to a royal summons, and accepted the King's command to form a new government. King George was out of bed and sitting up to receive him, but little Princess Elizabeth was noticeably absent...
Thursday. A crowd stood waiting in front of No. 10 Downing St., official town residence for Britain's Prime Ministers, where Ramsay MacDonald was busily conferring with acid-tongued Philip Snowden, financial genius of the Labor party, and James Henry Thomas, General Secretary of the National Union of Railwaymen, over final Cabinet appointments...
Friday. The retiring Tory Cabinet drove to Windsor, handed over their seals of office to the King-Emperor. At the same time Prime Minister MacDonald published an official list of members of the new Labor Cabinet...
Writing of choosing the new Cabinet in Forward, British Labor weekly, Ramsay MacDonald said: "Then will come the unhappy days when for the merit I should like to reward I can find no places vacant, for all those I can fit in I cannot always find the appropriate place. May I be judged sympathetically...
...these are new M. P.'s except Major Gwilym George. Megan Lloyd George, though she was far younger when she lived at No. 10 Downing Street than was sober-sided Ishbel MacDonald, who was her father's official hostess, is much the same quiet sort of girl and leaves flamboyance to her parent. Of all the progeny of the Big Three, the most curious is Oliver Baldwin, a young man once thin and precious, now plump and still precious. A member of Oxford's most esoteric circles, he fought in the Armenian army, was imprisoned in Turkey...