Word: macdonald
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Balance of Power. As a result of the ballot, grey-haired, brown-mustached James Ramsay MacDonald, leader of the Laborites, seemed likely to become a minority Prime Minister again. As during his first term (January-November 1924) the votes necessary for him to obtain a majority over the Conservatives on important party legislation lay in the control of that most professional political practitioner, bob-haired David Lloyd George. As before, Liberal Lloyd George could combine with whatever side he chose until it suited him to oppose the government on a confidence vote. Then another general election would be required...
...Leaders. While other British weekenders discussed the situation, made bets, offered advice, the three principals spent their weekend conferring with party colleagues. Stanley Baldwin retired to the prime ministerial estate, "Chequers," in Buckinghamshire. Ramsay MacDonald went to Hampstead. David Lloyd George went to his country place in Surrey, chuckling to newsgatherers...
...that Ramsay MacDonald has accepted the king's invitation to form a cabinet, England will have its first labor government which is not in a minority. Even with only a coalition government the Labor Party showed a few years ago that it was able to do more than sit on the minority bench, and now that it is in a semi-independent position it will undoubtedly be able to put on a much stronger front...
...Labor Party this attitude shows little more than prejudice and ignorance, but none the less it is adhered to with a varying degree of conviction by a large number of Americans to whom the word Socialist is synonymous with anarchy, bolshevism, and bomb throwing. The period through which Mr. MacDonald's government holds office will surely be rude awakening for the members of this school who will have enough interest to follow it through to its close...
...Blue at New Haven he took a second in the 220, but through an error on the part of the judges, failed to place in the 100, although crossing the line at the heels of Kieselhorst the Yale star and ahead of both A. E. French '29, and MacDonald, who were awarded second and third places. French conceded his position on the team making the trip to the intercollegiate at Philadelphia to the 1930 man, and it is expected that the newly elected Captain and Kieselhorst of Yale will be the pair to compete against the representative sprinters of Oxford...