Word: macdonald
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...head. Thenceforward the "ginger group" of the Labor Party harassed the Government at every turn, until Premier Baldwin at length forced the matter to a vote. Then the Laborites, led by the "fire-eating" J. R. Clynes and J. H. Thomas, their "balance-wheel," in the absence of Ramsay Macdonald,* solemnly marched from the hall in protest...
...Labor resolution censuring the Government for its part in the recent jailing of 12 noted Communists (TIME, Dec. 7) was voted down by the House 351 to 122. During the debate former Labor Premier Macdonald cried: "These 12 men were put in prison after a trial conducted like a general election . . . after a most improper whoop." The Home Secretary, Sir William Joynson-Hicks, noted die-hard Conservative, replied to Mr. Macdonald's attack less pugnaciously than is his wont. He remarked: "My attention haying been called to these Communists, their activities were merely referred to the Attorney General." Attorney...
...such forced idlers last week came a flickering hope expounded by Dr. W. J. MacDonald, surgeon and physiological experimenter, of St. Catherine's, Ontario, before the Toronto Academy of Medicine. For seven months Dr. McDonald has neglected his practice to work in the laboratories of Toronto University under the guidance of Dr. J. J. R. Macleod, skilled inspirer of students, keen biological chemist, co-discoverer with Dr. F. G. Banting of insulin, hope of diabetics (TIME...
...MacDonald and Macleod have crushed beef livers (from healthy two-year-old animals), let serum rise from the maceration, filtered, titrated, decanted the serum, got a whitish grey fluid which they injected into the muscles of men suffering from high blood pressure...
...Macdonald: "Why did the Conference undertake only the disarmament of the Rhineland? War is far likelier to break out on the Danube than on the Rhine...