Word: macdonald
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ramsay MacDonald has said : "The Government pitiably mishandled the problem. . . . . In the end the only things that could happen did happen. As in the decaying days of the Roman Empire, victorious invaders had to be bought off, so peace has now to be purchased by spending taxpayers' money...
...something-listen, there's just one man is going to win the Western. Let me tell you something, the boy that is going to win the Western is. . . . . " They then appended the name of one of the following professionals: James Barnes, Willie Macfarlane, M. J. P. Brady or Macdonald Smith, their choice depending on the location of their club-whether in Florida, New Jersey or New York...
...little girl, Elna Barnes. Her father decided not to play. Macfarlane, who has been going to an occulist all year because his altering sight had effected his putting, found that he had to have his glasses changed. Brady, for reasons unmentioned, also withdrew. So of the four favorite sons, Macdonald Smith alone was left, and on him the know-it-alls fixed their hopes. Among his 261 competitors were such men as Walter Hagen, Gene Sarazen, Leo Diegal...
...MACDONALD...
...London opened the first British Commonwealth Labor Conference. Ex-Premier Ramsay MacDonald, speaking on behalf of the British Labor Party, welcomed Labor delegates from Australia, Canada, India, Ireland (Free State and Ulster), Newfoundland, South Africa and the mandate of Palestine. To them he urged acceptance of a Commonwealth preference based not upon tariff reform but upon "large wholesale purchases by committees under Government control" which, presumably, would buy solely from the overseas British...