Word: macdonald
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sons Astor and Rockefeller made themselves obsequiously useful as assistant secretaries respectively to the British and U. S. delegations. Son MacDonald, himself a delegate, hobnobbed with the chief delegates: Jerome Davis Greene of the U. S. (partner, Lee, Higginson & Co.); Baron Hailsham of Britain (recently Lord Chancellor); Dr. Inazo Nitobe of Japan (onetime Under-Secretary of the League of Nations); Dr. David Z. T. Yui of China (confidential spokesman of the Nationalist Government...
...Never put off until tomorrow what you can just as well put off until next week"- such was the Irish motto cheerfully followed by Scot James Ramsay MacDonald on his return last week to Britain...
...Liverpool. There were more cheers at London's grimier Euston station. But there was no such spontaneous, frenzied welcome from all classes as crippled Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Snowden received when he brought home his piece of "Reparations Sponge Cake" from The Hague (TIME, Sept. 9). Mr. MacDonald was not "chaired" (carried in British triumph shoulder high) as was Mr. Snowden. In his empty hands he brought only Peace...
...Freedom from these suspicions would have been enjoyed by almost any Labor leader. But Mr. MacDonald has personal qualities of his own which attract Americans more, perhaps, than they do Englishmen. His capacity for expressing religious and idealistic sentiment in public speeches is more popular and more accepted in America than in England...
...tongue-slip was double, for in the absence of Laborite Prime Minister MacDonald, Mr. Snowden was himself the acting Prime Minister. Said he with a wry grimace. "It will take a little time for us to recover from old habits...