Word: macdonald
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Baldwin having given £30,000,000 to America, Mr. MacDonald said: 'Well, I don't see, if money is going like that, why I should not do the same thing.' So he gave £12,000,000 to the Germans and £30,000,000 to the Russians, so as to level with Mr. Baldwin...
Another shows MacDonald as "the hope of the world" being led by the Angel of Peace, while the satellites France, Russia, Germany look on admiringly...
Incidents. The most noteworthy of the incidents which befell candidates, during the past week, was the persistent bad luck which dogged Premier MacDonald. Dashing about the country in his now notorious automobile (TIME, Sept. 22), he was able to make many speeches-too many; the result being that, at the end of the campaign's first week, he had lost his voice. He had said previously: "I was never so tired in my life...
...Leeds, the Premier spoke to the plebs from an improvised platform on which he and 30 others stood. In the middle of his speech, the platform collapsed, precipitating most of the occupants, including the Premier, to the ground. After picking himself up, Mr. MacDonald resumed his speech from a part of the platform left intact. He said that the collapse was an example of the weight with which Labor would bring down its opponents...
Premier Ramsay MacDonald of Britain, expostulating that British troops had remained on the Iraq side of the frontier (i.e., what Britain said was the Iraq side), requested the League for an immediate Council meeting to deal with the difficulty. The Council of the League informed Sir Eric Drummond, League Secretary General, that it would hold "as soon as possible" an extraordinary session to consider the Anglo-Turkish dispute...