Word: macdonald
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...long-distance runner in Canadian politics, William Lyon Mackenzie King had already broken all endurance records as Prime Minister of Canada. (Previous champion: Sir John A. Macdonald, 19 years.) Last week, he passed an Empire milestone. By completing 7,620 days (20 years, 10 months and 10 days) in office, Mackenzie King toppled the mark set by Robert Walpole for service as the King's First Minister...
...referees in question, M. J. MacDonald and C. L. Crovat, left the scene early and made no statement as to whether the score would stand at 10 to 3 or later possibly be awarded to Yale on a forfeit tally of 1 to 0. Both officials were assigned to the game by Asa R. Bushnell of the Eastern Intercollegiate Athletic Association. The summary: HARVARD YALE Coulter lw Wood Key o Moher McKean rw Ritz Greeley rd Dalley Washburn ld Welch Lavalle g Burns...
Boxing the Compass. "Wallace," says Macdonald, "never analyzes a problem: he barges around inside it, throwing out vague exhortations." The reason, he thinks, is that "Wallace wants to be loved, and followed by everybody, just as he wants to believe every doctrine all at once." For much the same reason "Wallace's words don't spring, they don't leap, they don't even stumble; they just ooze ... his writing is that of a sick and troubled man, a man not at peace with himself. . . ." Macdonald thinks that Wallace's behavior in the 1932 campaign...
...Wallace become an apologist for Stalinism? Macdonald concludes that "a large power-mass like the Soviet Union exercises a tremendous gravitational pull on an erratic comet like Henry Wallace. ... It is not true that Henry Wallace is an agent of Moscow. But it is true that he behaves like one. . . . Wallace has made a career by supplying to the liberals a commodity they crave: rhetoric which accomplishes in fantasy what cannot be accomplished in reality...
Perpetual Fogs. Macdonald has a few pages of fun with "Wallese," the language spoken in "Wallaceland . . . the mental habitat of Henry Wallace plus a few hundred thousand regular readers of the New Republic, the Nation and PM. It is a region of perpetual fogs, caused by the warm winds of the liberal Gulf Stream coming in contact with the Soviet glacier." Wallace is loaded with "ritualistic adjectives" like "forward-looking," "freedom-loving," "clear-thinking." Such lingo, delivered with the "expansiveness of a Messiah," is just what it takes to make his followers accept Wallace "on his own valuation...