Word: macdonald
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Premier. In a speech at Derby, Premier Ramsay MacDonald defied the opposition to oust the Labor Government over the Anglo-Russian Treaty (TIME, Sept. 22, 29). The most important passages of his speech...
...publication of these planks in the Labor platform, which are to be presented next week at a conference of the Party's executives, was thought by some to indicate that the schism within the Labor ranks was healed. Such was not necessarily the case; for Premier MacDonald is irretrievably bound to the Anglo-Russian Treaty?which is to be used as a lever to oust the Laborites (TIME, Sept. 29)?while Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Snowden is opposed to the financial clauses of the Treaty on the ground that the Government would be unable to finance the cheaper...
Arrival. Premier Saad Zaghlul of Egypt arrived in London to confer with Premier Ramsay MacDonald upon the Sudan dispute. At Victoria Station, he and Mme. Zaghlul were hailed with enthusiasm by Egyptian students who lustily cried: "Long live British Democracy! Egypt and the Sudan for the Egyptians! Representatives of the British Premier and Foreign Office met the Egyptian Premier; Londoners gave him a quiet, but friendly, welcome...
...members of the Board follows: Thomas Sanders Jr., C. F. Larrabee, W. E. Miller, A. H. Gordon, G. A. Wingar, W. L. Dayton, W. J. Merrill, F. R. Hulme, O. E. Coffee, F. D. Leete, J. A. Payne, C. W. Deeds, R. G. Fuller, C. E. Johnston, W. S. MacDonald, H. D. Blair, V. C. Norton, C. M. Peale, J. C. Bancroft, and A. J. Friedlander...
...Progressive movement and ditched it. Wilson formulated Progressive principals, some of which were repudiated in act. La Follette stands on 43 years of public service during which time he has done more to further progressive accomplishment than any other man in the United States. He is the Ramsay MacDonald of this country, a tribute that no other statesman can fittingly claim...