Word: macdonald
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Onetime Laborite Premier James Ramsay Macdonald enjoyed little sleep last week at his comfortable London home, Upper Frognal Lodge. Night after night the House of Commons resounded through wearisome post-midnight hours as the 150 Laborite M. P.'s fought and filibustered against Premier Baldwin's irresistible phalanx of 413 Conservatives. At last Mr. Macdonald suffered the ignominy of seeing his forces become so disorganized that many a hot-headed Laborite howled such unparliamentary epithets as "coward," "liar," "murderer." ( This unbridled rowdyism burst forth, of course, when the Government began to force through the Commons its long heralded...
Former Premier Macdonald (rising from the opposition bench, haggard, distraught): "I wish to dissociate myself individually and officially from anything tending to degrade the House of Commons in the eyes of the country. I am speaking for my colleagues as well as myself...
...their several elections they had been set apart as members of a specially evolved division of the human family. They were told that they represented "legislative man." Two New York Democrats-Senator Copeland and Representative Kindred-introduced resolutions in their respective chambers proposing the appointment of a Dr. Arthur MacDonald to measure all congressional skulls annually, estimate the average brain weight within and make illuminating deductions in a report to the Vice President- without mentioning any names-as to the "inner activities of Congress." Dr. Copeland has long fattened his income by writing on popular medical subjects for the newspapers...
Though the government remained firm in its determination to jam through a suspension of the Seven Hours Act, the Labor party announced its irreconcilable opposition. Former Laborite-Premier Macdonald declared: "The Premier's speech was most disastrous,... will harden the miners into adamant resistance." Secretary "Emperor" Cook of the Miners' Federation apostrophized Premier Baldwin in a public speech: "You say, Mr. Baldwin, that you have no desire to lower the miners' standard of living. Baldwin...
Harvard's other two runs came in the fourth and seventh innings. Burns opened the fourth with a long triple to right field, and scored standing up when Zarakov plunked a single over the third baseman's head. In the seventh MacDonald dropped Tobin's easy fly to centerfield. DeRham walked, and Ullman hunted safely. Tobin scored on Booth's long sacrifice fly after Sullivan had been retired on a fly that gave Tobin no chance from third...