Word: macdonald
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Union of his college, and engaging in a debate against the Australian team which toured Europe and America, a debate which attracted widespread attention by discussing the color problem of a "White Australia." Ramage has written for the "Socialist Review", the leading English socialist monthly, to which J. Ramsay MacDonald is a regular contributor...
...Premier discussed onetime Premier MacDonald's invitation to call a general election, saying that he was too sporting an opponent to hit the Labor Party until it had a stronger issue than repeal of the Trades Union...
...James Henry Thomas, chubby-faced, excoriated the Russians for "publishing to the world a lying statement that Ramsay MacDonald, M. P., shammed illness and went to America [TIME, May 30] to escape participating in the discussion of the Trades Union bill." Then, raising his voice, he ejaculated: "I say that such con-duct is damnable, mean and con-temptible...
Significance. The decision to break off relations indicates that the British Labor movement is once again under the undisputed leadership of moderates such as one-time Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald and his trusty aides, John Clynes, "Jimmy" Thomas and others. The reason for this is probably the General Strike, undertaken against the ad- vice of the moderates, which not only dealt them a hard blow in the sense that it gave industry an unparalleled set-back and robbed them of full-time employment, but virtually bankrupted the Trades Union organizations throughout the country...
Then, last week, in Editor & Publisher, "trade" magazine for newspapermen, one Philip Schuyler related that the Lindbergh-signed stories were not written by Lindbergh. He named their true author-one Carlyle MacDonald, a member of the New York Times European staff. Thus, if Mr. Schuyler wrote correctly, when Mr. James of the New York Times referred to Colonel Lindbergh's dictating his story to the stenographer, it was the story of Mr. MacDonald of the New York Times that the stenographer was really transcribing. Even the compliment to the beauty of Erin may have been a MacDonald heartthrob rather...