Word: macdonald
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Ramsay Rampant. As Sir Austen resumed his seat, famed Laborite Leader Ramsay Macdonald pounced venomously upon his last words: "I am very much inclined to allow the laurels which the right honorable gentleman has just placed upon his own head to remain there without question...
Interlocutor-The Right Honorable Philip Snowden, P.C.,* M.P., Chancellor of the Exchequer in the Macdonald Laborite Government (1924). Respondent-The Right Honorable Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, P.C.,* C.H.,† Chancellor of the Exchequer in the present Baldwin Conservative Government. Harlequin-John Joseph Jones, M.P. from West Ham, famed as "Jumping Jack Jones" (TIME, April 7, 1924). THE PLAYLET...
...ought to be neighbors," said a resonant Scotch voice;-the voice of Ramsay Macdonald. While the Lord Mayor of London and many another beamed, Mr. Macdonald added: "and handle our affairs in a neighborly spirit." Having thus spoken, he put down the polished instrument into which he had been speaking. He had inaugurated the first commercial telephone service between London and Berlin. He had spoken well. Subsequent conversations were carried on at a three-minute rate equivalent to $4 during the day and $2.50 at night. Inquisitive persons asked: "To whom did Mr, Macdonald speak?" They were abashed to learn...
...Nephew of encyclopedic-minded Viscount Haldane, lord chancellor of the Ramsay Macdonald (1924) Labor cabinet; author of Daedalus and Callinicus in the widely-read "Today and Tomorrow Series" of prophetic essays (E. P. Dutton & Co.); prophet of the extinction of agriculture (by synthetic foods); savior of child life by his discovery of ammonium chloride as a cure for convulsions...
...Paris, Tex., the will of the late William J. MacDonald, banker, was filed for probate. To relatives, bequests of $120,000. To the University of Texas, $1,400,000- for an astronomical observatory to bear the donor's name. Dean Harry Yandell Benedict, Professor of Astronomy, declared: "This gift will make the name of Mr MacDonald as imperishable as the science of astronomy itself and will attract scientists who will spread Mr. MacDonald's name to every part of the world...